US Patent Issued to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES on Feb. 24 for "Device account activation" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,663, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY INC. (New York).

"Device account activation" was invented by Alan Clark (Brighton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a system, method, and computer readable medium of the present disclosure comprises obtaining credential information of a user of the computing device; authenticating the credential information of the user; releasing, in response to authenticating the credential information, a first secret element to a secure element processor of the computing device, wherein the first secret element is associated ...