US Patent Issued to Apple on July 21 for "Cryptographic participant vouching" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,664, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Cryptographic participant vouching" was invented by Nicholas J. Circosta (Mountain View, Calif.), Adam Y. Syed (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Andrew J. Daley (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrew J. Ringer (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Frederic Jacobs (St. Sulpice, Switzerland), Jad Osseiran (San Francisco), Justin R. Etzine (San Jose, Calif.), Mark M. Xue (Berkeley, Calif.), Nelson M. Leduc (San Jose, Calif.), Robert B. Mcindoe (San Jose, Calif.) and Zak C. Wegweiser (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology include receiving, by a first d...