US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for passwordless logon" (Michigan, New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,635, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for passwordless logon" was invented by Robert Jacob Linial Small (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jonathan E. T. Means (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Philip Darin Lowman (Troy, Mich.), Glenn J. Stempeck (Livonia, Mich.), Jordan David Neidlinger (Saline, Mich.), Raven Shiao Stewart (Austin, Texas) and Shanieke Adreanna Walters-Pierre (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method receives a secret and a passwordless login request using a credential provider of the client device. The method pairs the credential provider of the clie...