ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,510, issued on May 12, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Encoding an authentication cookie with metadata" was invented by Peyush Gupta (Cupertino, Calif.), Raqib Hesaam Jones (San Jose, Calif.), Umesh Mangla (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dilip H. Sanghavi (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, an authenticator device may receive, from a browser, a request to connect to a secure service, wherein the request includes login credentials associated with a user of the browser. The authenticator device may determine that the user is an authorized user to access the secur...