US Patent Issued to Apple on July 14 for "Sharing system access using a device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,950, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Sharing system access using a device" was invented by Matthias Lerch (San Francisco) and Sven J. Hofmann (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to sharing an access credential. In various embodiments, sharee device receives an access credential shared by a sharer device to obtain access to a system. The sharee device determines a policy based on a server-based device (SBxD) certificate included in the access credential and performs an action in accordance with the determined policy. In some embodiments, the policy spe...