US Patent Issued to Gen Digital on May 19 for "Systems and methods for detecting user incapacitated states for securing a mobile device against unintended use" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,542, issued on May 19, was assigned to Gen Digital Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for detecting user incapacitated states for securing a mobile device against unintended use" was invented by Lei Gu (Bedford, Mass.) and Michael Shavell (Merrimack, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting user incapacitated states for securing a mobile device against unintended use may include (i) monitoring sensor data generated for a current user of the mobile device, (ii) detecting, based on the sensor data, an incapacitated state associated with the current user, and (iii) performing a se...