ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,130, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Authenticated interface element interactions" was invented by James R. Montgomerie (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jessica Aranda (Cupertino, Calif.), Patrick Coffman (San Francisco), Julien Freudiger (San Francisco), Matthew H. Gamble (Mill Valley, Calif.), Ron Huang (San Jose, Calif.), Anant Jain (San Francisco), Glen S. Low (Los Gatos, Calif.), Andrey Pokrovskiy (Mountain View, Calif.), Stephen J. Rhee (San Jose, Calif.), Matthew E. Shepherd (Mountain View, Calif.), Ansh Shukla (Cupertino, Calif.), Katherine Skinner (San Francisco), Kyle M. Sluder (San Francisco), Christopher Soli (San Francisco), Christopher K. Thom...