US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on July 29 for "Systems and methods for internet-wide monitoring and protection of user credentials" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,486, issued on July 29, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for internet-wide monitoring and protection of user credentials" was invented by Emile Delcourt (Wellesley, Mass.), Harish Somaraddi (Cambridge, Mass.) and Tadhg Pearson (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other things, this document describes systems, methods, and apparatus for monitoring and protecting a user credential issued by an organization when that credential is used outside that organization's network security perimeter. For example, a reverse proxy server (RPS) receives a client request directed to ...