US Patent Issued to Motorola Mobility on Nov. 3 for "Locking a device using bluetooth channel sounding in a connected device context" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,677, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Locking a device using bluetooth channel sounding in a connected device context" was invented by Ranjeet Gupta (Aurora, Ill.), Vishwanath K M (Bengaluru, India) and Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method provides techniques for device locking using Bluetooth Low Energy Channel Sounding. The method includes receiving, by a processor of an electronic device that includes a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) interface, a motion initiation message from a second electronic device while the electronic device is unlocked, the second electro...