US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 3 for "Authenticator communicating with a client computer to authenticate access to a server" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,181, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Authenticator communicating with a client computer to authenticate access to a server" was invented by Michael Guilford (Cary, N.C.), Benjamin William Shade (Waterlooville, Great Britain), Adam J. Oakey (Fareham, Great Britain) and Scott Moonen (Fuquay Varina, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for an authenticator to communicate with a client computer to authenticate access to a server. Authentication parameters are received to authenticate the client computer with the server, wher...