ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,011, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Third-party access to secure hardware" was invented by Brian Grassadonia (San Francisco), Ayokunle Omojola (San Francisco), Robert Andersen (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Michael Moring (San Francisco) and Daniele Perito (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a mobile device includes a secure subsystem configured to provide access to one or more of personal identifying information of a user of the mobile device and secure elements of the mobile device to applications native to an operating system of the mobile device and one or more third-party applicatio...