ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,419, issued on Nov. 25.

"Apparatus and method for first value device verification" was invented by Kyle Noel Jackson (Elk Grove, Calif.) and Mark Gabriel Mislang (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for first value device verification, the apparatus comprising at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive a first value request from a user on a user device, acquire a device identifier of the user device as a function of the first value request, obtain a device authentication code corres...