ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,950, issued on April 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Credential provisioning for an electronic device" was invented by David T. Haggerty (Cupertino, Calif.), George R. Dicker (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Joakim Linde (Cupertino, Calif.), Ahmer A. Khan (Cupertino, Calif.) and Timothy S. Hurley (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for provisioning credentials on an electronic device are provided. In one example embodiment, a secure platform system may be in communication with an electronic device and a financial institution subsystem. The secure platform system may ...