US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for controlling access to features of an electronic device" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,463, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for controlling access to features of an electronic device" was invented by Aakriti Mittal (Campbell, Calif.), David Cohen (Longmont, Colo.) and Sunitha Seshadri (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first user of an electronic device operates the electronic device in a first mode with access to a plurality of features. The first user optionally configures the electronic device to provide permission for another user to use the electronic device in a second mode with access to a subset of the plurality of features. The first user ...