ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,107, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for proximity single sign-on" was invented by Felipe Marin Cypriano (San Francisco), Marc J. Krochmal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Gokul P. Thirumalai (Mountain View, Calif.), Bob Bradley (San Jose, Calif.) and Dmitry V. Belov (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus of a device that endorses a proximity authorization for an authorization requesting device is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives a proximity authorization request from the authorization requesting device, wherein the authorizatio...