ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,957, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and user interfaces for account recovery" was invented by Carmen S. Yu (Fremont, Calif.), Dmitry V. Belov (Santa Clara, Calif.), Roberto Garcia (Los Gatos, Calif.), Munish K. Poonia (Cupertino, Calif.), Hannah S. Story (San Mateo, Calif.), Gokul P. Thirumalai (Mountain View, Calif.) and Assar E. Westerlund (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to account recovery. An example method includes, at a computer system in communication with a display generation component and one or more input devices: perform...