ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,691, issued on May 5, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Extending EAP for supporting generative AI challenges" was invented by Srinath Gundavelli (San Jose, Calif.), Avinash Kalyanaraman (San Francisco), Arman Rezaee (San Francisco) and Pradeep Kumar Kathail (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for extending EAP for supporting generative AI challenge-response for secure access are described. The techniques may be performed at least in part by an authentication server. An indication of a request for a user account to access the network resource via a user device is received. A determinati...