ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,751, issued on March 24, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS INTERNATIONAL N.V. (Geneva).

"Multi-modal gesture sequence passcode unlocking apparatus for a head-mounted display" was invented by Saurabh Rawat (Noida, India), Prashant Pandey (Kanpur, India), Raunaque Mujeeb Quaiser (Ghaziabad, India) and Ranjeet Singh (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus, a computer-implemented method, and a computer program product for utilizing a plurality of sensors on a head-mounted display to unlock locked features of the head-mounted display are provided. The example apparatus includes a head-mounted display, a plurality ...