US Patent Issued to Apple on May 26 for "Modifying device security state with secure ranging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,435, issued on May 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Modifying device security state with secure ranging" was invented by Benjamin A. Werner (San Jose, Calif.), Wade Benson (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rachel E. Miller (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Brian G. Kilberg (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology provides a framework for a trusted device to modify a security state of a target device (e.g., not fully unlocking the target device by activating biometric authentication at the target device) based on a secure ranging operation. The subject technology enables the trusted device to establish a secu...