ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,526, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for orchestrating web authentication requests" was invented by Robert Jacob Linial Small (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method uses a web browser to receive an authentication request for an application from an authentication prompt of a client device. The method identifies an authentication protocol associated with web browser of the client device and use the authentication prompt to fetch a first challenge from an authentication service associated with the client device. The method uses the au...