ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,462, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Partner One Acquisitions Inc. (Laval, Canada).

"System for providing input to a remote device" was invented by Sasa Karanovic (Toronto), Severin Smith (Toronto) and Brien Colwell (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application may be tested under conditions associated with a computing device at a remote location by causing the computing device to perform various functions. However, if the computing device has entered into a locked or sleep mode, physical input such as the input of a password, number, or gesture may normally be required to terminate the locked or sleep mode. To...