US Patent Issued to Apple on April 14 for "Detailing secure service provider transactions" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,686, issued on April 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Detailing secure service provider transactions" was invented by Chunlai Ma (Dublin, Calif.), Eric J. Gray (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Fei Gao (San Francisco), David L. Neumann (Lake Oswego, Ore.) and Xinyu Zhao (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A customer interfacing with a credential manager may be enabled to request and obtain securely from the credential manager additional details related to a service transaction previously effected between the customer and a service provider using a customer transaction credential managed by the credential manager....