US Patent Issued to Apple on April 15 for "Accessory device based authentication for digital assistant requests" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,935, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Accessory device based authentication for digital assistant requests" was invented by Ryan D. Webber (Vancouver, Canada), Trungtin Tran (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nikrouz Ghotbi (Seattle), Naresh Kumar Chinnathambi Kailasam (San Jose, Calif.), Sue Wen Chiao (Redwood City, Calif.), Tyler C. Leppek (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Brandon J. Newendorp (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example process includes at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory: while the electronic device is in a locked state and in communication with an external acces...