Patent 10178087 was granted and assigned to Samsung on January, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An apparatus and method for securing a personal identification number (PIN) on a mobile device are provided. The method may include receiving a request for the PIN from a secure element on the mobile device, instantiating a trusted user interface (TUI), collecting the PIN via the TUI, and securely transmitting the PIN from a trusted execution environment (TEE) associated with the TUI to a secure element (SE).