US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 4 for "Network authentication evaluation" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,128, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Network authentication evaluation" was invented by Yanbang Wang (Ithaca, N.Y.), Karl Hallgren (London) and Jonathan Larson (Bremerton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This patent relates to determining whether network authentication events are legitimate or malicious. One example includes receiving network data relating to past timestamped authentication events between network users and network devices and extracting graphical features from the timestamped authentication events. The example also includes extracting temporal features from ...