US Patent Issued to SAILPOINT TECHNOLOGIES on June 23 for "Automatic authentication for user-dependent functionality" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,248, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAILPOINT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Automatic authentication for user-dependent functionality" was invented by David Ben Zakai (Ramat Gan, Israel), Eldar Kleiner (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Avishai Lazar (Etz Efraim, Israel) and Timor Eizenman (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, by an application running on a computing device, a single sign-on (SSO) username of a user who is using the device, without input from the user. The method further includes passing the SSO username to an identity provider (IdP) so as to authenticate the user to ...