ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,841, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for secure data reception using a user device" was invented by Olivier Martin de la Bastide (Paris), Frank Andries van den Berg (Valencia, Spain) and Jean-Christophe A. Raynon (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device may receive, from an electronic device and via a wireless connection, a request to securely transmit user information using a secure data exchange module of the computing device. The computing device may configure the secure data exchange module for conducting a secure transmission of the user information and ...