ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,984, issued on June 10, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Device pick-up detection" was invented by Stefano Paolo Rivolta (Desio, Italy) and Roberto Mura (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to pick-up state detection for an electronic device, such as a laptop. In a pick-up state, the device is picked or lifted up from a surface, such as a table. A power state of the device is adjusted in response to detecting the pick-up state. For example, the device is in a hibernate state while set on the table, and is switched to a working state in response to detecting the pi...