ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,866, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Adaptive user enrollment for electronic devices" was invented by David Cohen (Boulder, Colo.), Kyle C. Brogle (San Francisco), Michael J. Rockwell (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ranjit Desai (Cupertino, Calif.), Joel N. Kerr (San Jose, Calif.), Amy E. Dedonato (San Francisco), Joaquim Goncalo Lobo Ferreira Da Silva (San Jose, Calif.), Tyler R. Calderone (Boulder, Colo.) and Charilaos Papadopoulos (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology provide electronic devices that operate, in part, based on enrolled user characteristics, a...