ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,670, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).
"Zero sign-on authentication" was invented by Stuart Hoggan (Longmont, Colo.) and Seetharama R. Durbha (Louisville, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of facilitating zero sign-on access to media services depending on trust credentials. The trust credentials may be cookies, certificates, and other data sets operable to be stored on a device used to access the media services such that information included therein may be used to control the zero sign-on capabilities of the user device."
The patent was filed on Nov. 15, 2021, unde...