US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on May 20 for "Browser extensionless phish-proof multi-factor authentication (MFA)" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,141, issued on May 20, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Browser extensionless phish-proof multi-factor authentication (MFA)" was invented by Charles E. Gero (Quincy, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-factor authentication scheme uses an MFA authentication service and a browser extensionless phish-proof method to facilitate an MFA workflow. Phish-proof MFA verifies that the browser the user is in front of is actually visiting the authentic (real) site and not a phished site. This achieved by only allowing MFA to be initiated from a user trusted browser by verifying its authenticity through a sig...