US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 15 for "Secure keyboard with auto key lock using mobile device signal range tracking" (Singaporean, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,178, issued on July 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Secure keyboard with auto key lock using mobile device signal range tracking" was invented by Malathi R (Madurai, India), Peng Lip Goh (Singapore) and Daniel L. Hamlin (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A keyboard of an information handling system includes keyboard (RF) transmitter/receiver that provides range information for a mobile device paired to the keyboard RF transmitter/receiver. A keyboard controller is coupled to the keyboard RF transmitter/receiver and is responsive to the range information indicating the mobile device is out of ...