ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,828, issued on July 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Mobile electronic device input actuation" was invented by Nicholas Benjamin Wendt (Seattle), Brett Andrew Tomky (Seattle), Raveena Patil (Redmond, Wash.), Bianca Sullivan (Redmond, Wash.) and Denys V Yaremenko (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are disclosed relating to mobile electronic devices and methods for preventing and allowing actuation of an input mechanism in the device. In one example, signals from a device sensor are used to determine that a user's hand is not proximate to the device. Based at least on this ...