US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on June 16 for "Network authentication service security" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,307, issued on June 16, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Network authentication service security" was invented by Sinead O'Donovan (Seattle), Avraham Carmon (Hofit, Israel), Ashish Jain (Bellevue, Wash.), Shahzad Ahmed Khalid (San Ramon, Calif.), Mordhai Gendelman (Ramat-Gan, Israel), Or Moran (New York) and Navyatha Beesetti (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide or utilize technology which increases the security of network authentication operations, such as Kerberos operations, New Technology LAN Manager operations, or other network authentication operations which utili...