US Patent Issued on Aug. 25 for "Systems, methods and devices for sensor-based computer locking" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,978, issued on Aug. 25.

"Systems, methods and devices for sensor-based computer locking" was invented by Chunkin Chan (Hongkong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer locking systems, methods and devices are disclosed. A controller (102) is configured to monitor, based on signals from a sensor (104), presence of a user in front of the sensor (104). In addition, the controller (102) determines, based on the signals from the sensor (104), that a user is not present in front of the sensor (104) and, in response to determining that the user is not present in front of the sensor (104) based on the sensor signals, transmits a keyst...