ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,491, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Securing in-app purchases" was invented by Thomas Matthieu Alsina (Paris), Scott T. Boyd (Montara, Calif.), Michael Kuohao Chu (Cupertino, Calif.), Augustin J. Farrugia (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Gianpaolo Fasoli (Redwood City, Calif.), Patrice O. Gautier (San Francisco), Sean B. Kelly (Cupertino, Calif.), Payam Mirrashidi (Los Altos, Calif.), Pedraum Pardehpoosh (Palo Alto, Calif.), Conrad Sauerwald (Mountain View, Calif.), Kenneth W. Scott (San Jose, Calif.), Rajit Shinh (San Francisco), Braden Jacob Thomas (San Jose, Calif.) and Andrew R. Whalley (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the ...