US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 18 for "User input during an electronic data transfer" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,489, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User input during an electronic data transfer" was invented by Frank Andries van den Berg (San Jose, Calif.), Sebastien Fontaine (Montreal) and Varun A. Vora (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches for display of a user input field on a data originating device during a data transfer are disclosed herein. The data originating device can be positioned within a proximity of a data receiving device to initiate a data transfer between the data originating device and the data receiving device. A secure channel may be established between the data or...