US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 16 for "Location-aware multi-factor authentication for virtual machine users" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,318, issued on June 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Location-aware multi-factor authentication for virtual machine users" was invented by Ankit Singh (Bangalore, India), Shrikant U. Hallur (Bangalore, India) and Naveen Awasthy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed systems and methods provide location-aware multi-factor authentication for VM users in combination with the prohibited users lists and disconnecting VMs based on user behavior or activity. Implementations may employ a hypervisor enabled by a lightweight, secure operating system (LSOS) as a foundational, enabling, and OS-agnost...