ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,871, issued on July 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User interface for accessing an account" was invented by Frank De Jong (San Francisco), Hannah S. Story (San Mateo, Calif.), Keetae Ryu (San Jose, Calif.), Dmitry V. Belov (Santa Clara, Calif.), Gokul P. Thirumalai (Mountain View, Calif.), Wayne Loofbourrow (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan Birdsall (Campbell, Calif.), Nagarjuna Thottempudi (Fremont, Calif.), Felipe Marin Cypriano (San Francisco) and Patrick L. Coffman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to setting up an account for a service. A request to set up an ...