US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 15 for "Techniques for authenticating a user" (Michigan, California, North Carolina, South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,101, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for authenticating a user" was invented by Derek William Engi (Pleasant Ridge, Mich.), Gonzalo Salgueiro (Raleigh, N.C.), Pascale Delaunay (La Verne, Calif.) and Julie Allen (Sioux Falls, S.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for authenticating a user. For instance, a system may initially generate and then store authentication data for later authenticating the user. The authentication data may include biometrics data (e.g., facial recognition data), credentials data (e.g., a username, password, etc.), and...