ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,185, issued on April 22, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for WebAuthn transport via a WebAuthn proxy" was invented by Oliver Robert Stocker (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jeremy Lee Erickson (Renton, Wash.) and David Steven Gross (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a WebAuthn proxy, login prompt information from a browser. The WebAuthn proxy and the browser are installed on a device. The method also includes generating, by the WebAuthn proxy, a WebAuthn credential request based on the login prompt information and communicating, by the WebAuth...