ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,311, issued on May 5, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Authentication attack detection and mitigation with embedded authentication and delegation" 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 methods for authentication attack detection with embedded authentication and delegation 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, wherein subsequent access requests accompanied by authentication objects are validate...