ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,948, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cryptographic binding of native application and external browser sessions" was invented by Danxiang Li (Arlington, Mass.), Vincent Parla (North Hampton, N.H.), Andrzej Kielbasinski (Grafton, Mass.) and Dany Jacques Rochefort (Norfolk, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for receiving information associated with a final single sign-on page from a native browser, extracting a public key from the information associated with the final single sign-on page, generating a single sign-on token to bind a browser session and a na...