ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,994, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for fast account setup" was invented by Michael McDougall (San Francisco), Steve S. Ko (Los Altos, Calif.), John William Scalo (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Patrick L. Coffman (San Francisco) and Aaron Matthew Everitt (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for collecting, storing, and transmitting account information in a matchable form, and for using this information to quickly set up accounts. Account information is maintained and shared between one or more client devices and an intermediate server. Acc...