US Patent Issued on May 6 for "Self-federation in authentication systems" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,575, issued on May 6.

"Self-federation in authentication systems" was invented by Ayush Jain (North Lauderdale, Fla.) and Ricardo Feijoo (Davie, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein may utilize self-federation in a plugin-based authentication system to support combinations of authentication processes. The authentication system may include a plugin that executes an authentication process that is a combination of two or more other authentication processes. This plugin may handle the combined authentication process by self-federating back to the authentication interface, generating its own authentication requests...