ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,693, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Authorizer for operations of a virtual terminal" was invented by Frank Andries van den Berg (San Jose, Calif.), Rahul Narayan Singh (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Robin Burel (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using an authorizer in a virtual terminal on a multipurpose device to authorize operations of a cryptographic applet in a secure element associated with the multipurpose device are described herein. These techniques include receiving an authorization token and setting authorization criteria for the operation of the cryptographic ...