US Patent Issued to KT&G on Feb. 24 for "Method and apparatus for unlocking based on user input" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,054, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for unlocking based on user input" was invented by Yong Hwan Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea), Dong Sung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hunil Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seok Su Jang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for unlocking the electronic device includes displaying a screen for verifying a registered user, determining whether a user is a registered user in the electronic device based on a user input to the screen for verifying a registered user, and unlocking the electronic device when the user is determined to ...