ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,824, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"User access to functionality of a docked tablet computing device" was invented by Xiomara Alejandro (Austin, Texas), Carol Kotermanski (New York), Marten Andreas Jonsson (London), Roger Graves (San Carlos, Calif.), Artur Tsurkan (Mountain View, Calif.), Prabhu Balasubramanian (Cupertino, Calif.), Lauren Wunderlich (Mountain View, Calif.) and Esther Leong (Cave Creek, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques for directed to unauthenticated and authenticated users accessing functionality of a docked computing device. The techniques are directed ...