US Patent Issued on March 3 for "Device access control" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,829, issued on March 3.

"Device access control" was invented by Hui Zhang (Nanjing, China), Taoyong Ding (Nanjing, China) and Liang Zhou (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device access control can be implemented on a protected device to determine, based on a user input to the device, that a timeout threshold has been exceeded and to cause, in response to determining that the timeout threshold has been exceeded, an application graphical user interface (GUI) on the device to remove or blank content, such as text, images, or graphics, from the application window. The removal or blanking of the content can be performed on a ...