ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,728, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Accessory assisted account recovery" was invented by Yannick L Sierra (San Francisco), Lucia E. Ballard (San Francisco), Kyle C. Brogle (San Francisco) and DJ Capelis (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein enable a user to bypass the use of one-time keys or account recovery codes by providing techniques for accessory assisted account recovery. In various embodiments, accessory assisted account recovery makes use of an accessory device of a user, where the accessory device can be any device having a secure processor, cryptographi...