US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 1 for "Sponsor delegation for multi-factor authentication" (Canadian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,515, issued on July 1, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sponsor delegation for multi-factor authentication" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Vinay Saini (Bangalore, India) and Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media for using a sponsor as a proxy for multi-factor authentication of a first user account for a first user when a primary multi-factor authentication mechanism is unavailable to the first user account, comprising registering the sponsor in a multi-factor authentication chain of trust...