ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,017, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Dashlane SAS (Paris).

"Authentication with cloud-based secure enclave" was invented by Mohammed Ruhul Islam (Taverny, France), Ludovic Widmer (Clichy, France), Guillaume Maron (Paris), Cyril Leclerc (Paris), Corentin Mors (Lyons, France) and Frederic Rivain (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure provide an authenticator system that protects secret authentication keys associated with relying parties to which a user is authenticating. Present systems and methods allow cross-platform and cross-device WebAuthn usage. Example systems employ a server-based sec...