US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "Multi-factor authentication based cellular wireless service transfer with account owner consent" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,263, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multi-factor authentication based cellular wireless service transfer with account owner consent" was invented by Suraj Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hyewon Lee (Cupertino, Calif.), Raj S. Chaugule (San Jose, Calif.), Samy Touati (Pleasanton, Calif.), Sherman X. Jin (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Zexing Shi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described embodiments set forth techniques for transferring cellular wireless service from a source wireless device to a target wireless device with multi-factor authentication and consent of a mobile network oper...