US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 2 for "Techniques for implementing phone number-based user accounts with permissions to access varying levels of services utilizing visible and hidden contact addresses" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,784, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for implementing phone number-based user accounts with permissions to access varying levels of services utilizing visible and hidden contact addresses" was invented by Xudong Liu (Campbell, Calif.), Guozhi Huang (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jonathon Sodos (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application sets forth techniques for managing phone number-based user accounts. According to some embodiments, a server computing device can be configured to carry out the steps of (1) receiving, from a first client computing device, a request to cre...