US Patent Issued to Apple on May 19 for "Credential extension for data transfer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,531, issued on May 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Credential extension for data transfer" was invented by Ansh Shukla (Cupertino, Calif.), Anton K. Diederich (Mountain View, Calif.) and Matthew C. Byington (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, methods, and computer-readable medium to utilize a credential extension for collection of information for a data transfer. The credential extension may be sandboxed which limit the information to be collected related to the data transfer and/or provide protection for the info...