US Patent Issued to Fortinet on July 14 for "Secure web proxy and temporary passcode for SSL exempted session-based authentication" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,934, issued on July 14, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Secure web proxy and temporary passcode for SSL exempted session-based authentication" was invented by Feng Han (Burnaby, Canada), Ying Li Wang (Burnaby, Canada), Wenping Luo (Burnaby, Canada) and Yidong Wei (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches to providing endpoint client authentication and application access control in a zero-trust network access (ZTNA) environment are described. A secure session is generated with a secure web proxy based on a request from a browser, wherein the request corresponds to a user and requests access to a se...