ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,052, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Proving membership using cryptographic identities" was invented by Alejandro A. Rodriguez (Saratoga, Calif.), Frederic Jacobs (St. Sulpice, Switzerland), Stephen M. Lottermoser (San Jose, Calif.), Pierre J. De Filippis (Los Gatos, Calif.), Ryan A. Williams (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Yannick L. Sierra (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology include obtaining, by a first device associated with a first user account, one or more item-specific public keys of one or more devices associated with a second user account and generating ...