ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,938, issued on June 24, was assigned to Omnissa LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Managing grouped student devices with timed locks" was invented by Bill DeWeese (Haltom City, Texas) and Kevin McKeithan (Fort Worth, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein can allow a teacher to manage student devices in a classroom setting by grouping student devices on a graphical user interface and using the interface to set locks with respect to the groups of student devices. Lock requests can be received and managed by a server, which can issue file locks, web locks, and application locks. These locks can restrict fi...