ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,922, issued on April 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-factor enabled access using randomly selected digital identity authentication factors" was invented by Dennis Lanov (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for providing multifactor authentication using randomly selected Digital Identity factors associated with a human user or individual seeking access to a facility, building, computer system, network, application, memory, etc. Digital Identity factors are or memory. Digital Identity factors are retrieved and stored by an authentication agent. The Digital Iden...