ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,845, issued on July 7, was assigned to BULL SAS (Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France).

"Method and system for authenticating a user to access a web application hosted on an application server" was invented by Christophe M. Guionneau (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for authenticating a user to access a web application, including reception, by an application server, of an access request; redirection to an IDAAS authentication server; authentication of said user with a social authentication server selected from said IDAAS server, reception by said IDAAS server of said user's personal data, veri...