US Patent Issued on Sept. 8 for "Electronic apparatus and method of providing pre-unlock to user" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,642, issued on Sept. 8.

"Electronic apparatus and method of providing pre-unlock to user" was invented by Seungman Kim (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device includes a network unit to communicate with an external device, a sensor to sense an event of the mobile device, a panel to display a menu and to receive a user input, and a control unit to perform a pre-unlock process to pre-unlock the mobile device to a pre-unlock mode from a power saving mode, and to perform an unlock process to unlock the mobile device to a normal mode from the pre-unlock mode."

The patent was filed on Jan. 25, 2025, under Application N...