ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,327, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for user account and data recovery" was invented by Gokul P. Thirumalai (Mountain View, Calif.), Alexandre A. Aybes (San Francisco), Dmitry V. Belov (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jean-Luc Giraud (Melbourn, Great Britain), Kalyan C. Gopavarapu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sudhakar N. Mambakkam (Saratoga, Calif.), Rebekah H. Mercer (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Keaton F. Mowery (Redwood City, Calif.), Steven A. Myers (San Jose, Calif.), Munish K. Poonia (San Jose, Calif.), Nihar Sharma (Detroit), Assar E. Westerlund (Somerville, Mass.) and Frederic Jacobs (St. Sulpice, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by ...