ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,715, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Network authentication toxicity assessment" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.) and Richard Kelley (Woodbridge, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for scoring and enforcing authentication standards that actually enable zero trust network security principles when combined with stateful authentication object tracking, authentication object manipulation and forgery detection, and assessment of authentication and identity attack surface. The methodology involves gathering all authentication objects issued by a network, storing the authenticati...