US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Systems and methods for electronic device access" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,295, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for electronic device access" was invented by David Cohen (Longmont, Colo.) and Aakriti Mittal (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 patent was filed on March 20, 2024, under Application No. 18/611,431.

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