ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,078, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multiple-key verification information for mobile device identity document" was invented by Martijn T. Haring (Cupertino, Calif.), Ahmer A. Khan (Milpitas, Calif.) and Xiangying Yang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to authenticating a user with a mobile device. In various embodiments, a mobile device receives a request to provision the mobile device with identification information from an identification document issued by an authority to a user for establishing an identity of the user. In response to the receive...