ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,061, issued on July 29, was assigned to Prevayl Innovations Ltd. (Wilmslow, Great Britain).
"Wearable device and method" was invented by Tahir Mahmood (Manchester, Great Britain) and Samuel Bird (Manchester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The wearable device (10) comprises a liveness detection module (103) arranged to detect whether the wearable device (10) is being worn by a user. The wearable device (10) comprises an activation message module (105) arranged to generate an activation message for requesting that wireless network services be activated for the wearable device (10) in response to the liveness detection mod...