US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 7 for "Paired device multi-factor authentication using bluetooth" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,180, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Paired device multi-factor authentication using bluetooth" was invented by Jay Prakash Tiwari (Princeton, N.J.), Praveen Kumar Sheena Poojary (Jersey city, N.J.) and Senthil Kumar Chadramohan (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining whether to send an MFA push notification are described. An indication of a request for a user account to access the application service via a primary device is received at an MFA service from an application service. Using a PAN protocol, determine whether the primary device and the seconda...