ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,437, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of application single sign on" was invented by Dmitry V. Belov (Santa Clara, Calif.), Brent A. Fulgham (San Jose, Calif.), Sudhakar N. Mambakkam (Saratoga, Calif.), Richard J. Mondello (Mountain View, Calif.), Kalyan C. Gopavarapu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Edgar Tonatiuh Barragan Corte (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Libor Sykora (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus of a device that authorizes a device for a service is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device intercepts a request for a web page from a web brows...