US Patent Issued on Oct. 20 for "Authentication tunneling mechanisms for remote connections" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,529, issued on Oct. 20.

"Authentication tunneling mechanisms for remote connections" was invented by Johannes Stockmann (Woodinville, Wash.) and Daniel Jeffrey Post (Pacifica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authentication tunneling is described. The method includes transmitting an authentication prompt to a client machine via an encrypted channel between a first authenticator application running on the remote machine and a second authenticator application running on the client machine. The authentication prompt may be associated with accessing resources via an identity management system. The method may further inc...