US Patent Issued to Vuzix on July 7 for "Method for unlocking an electronic device" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,563, issued on July 7, was assigned to Vuzix Corp. (West Henrietta, N.Y.).

"Method for unlocking an electronic device" was invented by Connor Hack (Rochester, N.Y.) and Gregory Moens (Penfield, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device including a processing unit and a gesture input device connected with the processing unit, wherein the gesture input device is operable to detect an input gesture to initiate password entry during a software locked state. The electronic device further includes a display, wherein the processing unit is operable to randomly assign a predefined set of input gestures to a predefined set of pa...