US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 20 for "Wireless LAN (WLAN) public identity federation trust architecture" (American, British, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,681, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Wireless LAN (WLAN) public identity federation trust architecture" was invented by Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, Texas), Bart Brinckman (Nevele, Belgium), Mark Grayson (Berkshire, Great Britain), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Matthew Stephen MacPherson (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology relates to a process of evaluating any number of different identity providers (IDPs) and their respective set of credentials that are used to authenticate corresponding users to assist with the onboarding of the different IDPs in ...