ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,079, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for user enrollment and authentication" was invented by Amy E. DeDonato (San Francisco), Jay Moon (San Francisco), Joseph Y. Chan (San Francisco), Danielle M. Price (Los Gatos, Calif.), Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), William A. Sorrentino III (Mill Valley, Calif.), Richard D. Lyons (London), Lee S. Broughton (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Katherine W. Kolombatovich (San Francisco) and Hugo D. Verweij (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure g...