US Patent Issued to QOMPLX on June 30 for "Detecting and mitigating forged authentication attacks within a domain" (Colorado, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,715, issued on June 30, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Detecting and mitigating forged authentication attacks within a domain" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.) and Andrew Sellers (Monument, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting and mitigating attacks using forged authentication objects within a domain is provided, comprising an authentication object inspector configured to observe a new authentication object generated by an identity provider, and retrieve the new authentication object; and a hashing engine configured to retrieve the new authentication object from the authentication object...