US Patent Issued to Box on July 7 for "Methods and systems for performing domain-wide authentication and authorization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,844, issued on July 7, was assigned to Box Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for performing domain-wide authentication and authorization" was invented by Christopher Tucker (South San Francisco, Calif.), Fernando Cerenza (San Francisco), Kimberly Kung (San Bruno, Calif.) and Prachi Jadhav (Emerald Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method for performing domain-wide authentication and authorization in a cloud-based environment can comprise receiving, from a third-party service of the cloud-based environment, a request to perform authentication and authorization of a user of the t...