ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,162, issued on July 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Security of physical account cards" was invented by Josue N. Del Rio Nava (San Jose, Calif.), Murthy V. Vedula (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Gabe B. Gindele (Santa Clara, Calif.), Christopher W. Dulgarian (Folsom, Calif.), Khalil Dababneh (Campbell, Calif.) and Philippe M. Wilson (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to managing the security of physical account cards. In some examples, resources are securely associated with a physical account card. In some examples, resources that are associated with the physical acc...