US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 22 for "Frictionless supplementary multi-factor authentication for sensitive transactions within an application session" (Canadian, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,819, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Frictionless supplementary multi-factor authentication for sensitive transactions within an application session" was invented by Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada), David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada), Walter T. Hulick Jr. (Pearland, Texas) and Tal Maoz (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology includes applying a security policy by an application security system to a transaction within an application that is monitored by the application security system. The present technology includes monitoring transaction occurring between ...