ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,701, issued on May 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"User interfaces for authenticating to perform secure operations" was invented by Sung Chang Lee (Saratoga, Calif.), Bowen Cheng (Chengdu, China), Yue Hang (Suzhou, China), Weiqi Pan (Shanghai), Yue Shen (Tianjin, China), Xiaoguang Yang (Beijing), Xiaofeng Yu (Shanghai), Feng Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Liang Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Qiuji Zhao (Singapore) and Wendong Zhong (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to methods and user interfaces for authentication, including providing authentication at a computer system in a...