ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,693, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Access to cloud-distributed applications via access credential locker service" was invented by Joseph Soryal (Glendale, N.Y.), Satyendra Tripathi (Marlboro, N.J.) and Christina Cacioppo (Freehold, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system may obtain a request from a user device to activate an access credential locker for use in accessing at least one enterprise system of an enterprise via the processing system, the request comprising a token that identifies the access credential locker, obtain a first key from the user device, transmit, ...