US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 29 for "Device-based anti-theft and recovery system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,898, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Device-based anti-theft and recovery system" was invented by Sudeep Chauhan (Antioch, Calif.) and Ehsan Nourbakhsh (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device-based anti-theft and recovery techniques for computing devices are disclosed herein. An example system includes one or more processors that execute instructions to receive, from a transferor that intends to convey the computing device to a transferee, one or more signal parameters that, if satisfied, permit the computing device to deactivate a protected mode of operation; activate, during a ...