US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Nov. 4 for "Centralized authentication storage and management for cloud-based services" (Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,963, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Centralized authentication storage and management for cloud-based services" was invented by Sanjay Ahuja (Irving, Texas) and Praveen Atreya (Martinsville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing centralized authentication storage and management are described. An illustrative method includes a gateway device detecting that a first computing device connected to an on-premises network logs into a cloud-based service by way of the gateway device, stores an authentication token provided to the gateway device by the...