ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,465, issued on April 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Device, method, and graphical user interface for managing authentication credentials for user accounts" was invented by Charilaos Papadopoulos (San Mateo, Calif.), Maureen Grace Daum (Mountain View, Calif.), Guillaume Borios (San Jose, Calif.) and Patrick Robert Burns (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, via the one or more input devices, a request to access a resource protected by a verification code; after receiving the request to access the resource, receiving, at the electronic ...