ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,517, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Cross platform credential sharing" was invented by Yousuf H. Vaid (Fremont, Calif.), Christopher Sharp (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Matthew C. Byington (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sunil Nair (Fremont, Calif.), Dmitry Vinokurov (Mountain View, Calif.), Brandon Leventhal (San Francisco), Alex Pelletier (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Casey Astiz (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to share a credential for accessing a secured entity between an origination device and a reci...