US Patent Issued to Apple on March 25 for "Sender verification for encrypted electronic messaging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,197, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Sender verification for encrypted electronic messaging" was invented by Elliot A. Barer (Santa Clara, Calif.), Pierre J. Defilippis (San Jose, Calif.), Roberto Garcia (Santa Clara, Calif.), Timothy Shaw (Cupertino, Calif.), Craig M. Federighi (Cupertino, Calif.), Darin B. Adler (Cupertino, Calif.) and Jonathon Sodos (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for sender verification for encrypted electronic messaging. The discloses systems and methods may facilitate reducing or preventing spam messages ...