ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,517, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Secure pin entry using a virtual terminal" was invented by Frank Andries van den Berg (San Jose, Calif.), Rahul Narayan Singh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Neilson Proulx-Marcil (Montreal), Jean-Francois Riendeau (Granby, Canada) and Mamta Devi (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using a virtual terminal on a multipurpose device for PIN entry to authorize a data transfer are described herein. These techniques provide the secure receipt of each PIN digit by the device and encryption of the PIN multipurpose device and while the PIN entry data is trans...