ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,888, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CyberArk Software Ltd. (Petach-Tikva, Israel).

"Passwordless secure authentication" was invented by Dima Barboi (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate to passwordless authentication. Techniques include identifying a request by a user to access an access-restricted target resource, the user operating on a client computing device and the request being associated with a network address for the access-restricted target resource; intercepting the request; generating a unique session identifier for the user; making available the unique session identifier to the ...