US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. on Sept. 29 for "Authentication using credientials cached at multi-function device" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,868, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. (Ramsey, N.J.).

"Authentication using credientials cached at multi-function device" was invented by Pranay Bhandarkar (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a multifunction peripheral or multifunction printer that includes a method for enhanced authentication. The method includes: receiving authentication information from a client device on a computer system; comparing the authentication information received from the client device to authentication information in a list of author...