ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,762, issued on April 14, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Heat-based authentication" was invented by Robert James Norton Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.), Robert J. Kapinos (Durham, N.C.), Russell S. VanBlon (Raleigh, N.C.) and Scott Li (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for heat-based authentication. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code that is executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to capture a thermal image of an object placed within a heated environment, identify at least one characteristic of the object ...