US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 17 for "Device authentication through proxy" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,822, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Device authentication through proxy" was invented by Justin David Brown (Seattle), Luke J. Lenhart (Woodinville, Wash.), Chong He (Redmond, Wash.), Kedar Hirve (Kent, Wash.) and Ankur Choudhary (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software-based authentication protocol enables a client to be authenticated by a server through a host. The authentication protocol involves using mutable authentication data that changes to deter counterfeiters from making clones of authentic clients. The host requests a token from the client as pro...