ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,038, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Security verification devices and security verification methods, apparatuses, and media" was invented by Wei An (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification discloses methods, apparatuses, systems, and media for security verification. In an example, an input/output apparatus is disposed on a front panel of an electronic device. In response to a user performs an operation on the input/output apparatus, the input/output apparatus determines an electrical signal corresponding to the operation, and sends the e...