ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,990, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Systems and methods of account verification upgrade" was invented by Richard J. Mondello (Mountain View, Calif.), Jay S. Mulani (San Francisco), Jonathan Birdsall (Campbell, Calif.), Dmitry V. Belov (Santa Clara, Calif.), Reza Abbasian (Los Gatos, Calif.), David P. Quesada (San Francisco) and Patrick L. Coffman (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus of a device that converts an account associated with an application to use a single sign-on service is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives an indication of a weak pa...