ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,015, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Saving battery usage on battery powered devices" was invented by Rakesh Pallerla (Hyderabad, India) and Mohamed Sunfeer (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for controlling access to an electronic device. For example, a process can include obtaining status information associated with an electronic device. The process can include determining, based on the status information associated with the electronic device, that an access restriction condition associated with the electronic device is met. The process can include gen...