ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,474, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Method for proving device identity to security brokers" was invented by Tal Zamir (Tel Aviv, Israel), Boris Figovsky (Sha'ar Efraim, Israel) and Oren Zomer (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in granting access to a target to a user device, comprising: receiving at a proxy a request to access the target; forwarding by the proxy the access request to a security broker when the user device is verified by the proxy to know a prescribed secret, wherein the request is forwarded so as to appear to originate from a prescribed set of int...