ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,863, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES (Saint Martin d'Heres, France).

"Access control to a set of apparatuses having screens" was invented by Islam El Boudi (Grenoble, France) and Nicolas Vuillerme (Saint Martin d'Heres, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling the use of screens by a user comprises a set of software modules each embedded in an apparatus of a set of apparatuses of the user. The set of apparatuses comprises screens, and a server connected to the apparatuses by a telecommunication network, wherein: the apparatuses are initially restricted to a first set of functions, an...