ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,396, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Device sharing" was invented by Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi (Tampere, Finland) and Miikka Tapani Vilermo (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure relate to sharing a device between two or more authenticated users. In examples of the disclosure an apparatus is configured to enable a first user to access one or more applications of a device. The apparatus can then enable authenticating a second user and enable the second user to access one or more functions of at least one application. The apparatus can also detect one or more...