US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 15 for "Risk-based factor selection" (Texas, North Carolina, Michigan, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,106, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Risk-based factor selection" was invented by Shayne Miel (Durham, N.C.), Joshua Terry (Round Rock, Texas), Richard Harang (Alexandria, Va.), Kevin Tyler Burchfield (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Gillian Gacusan (Austin, Texas), Patrick McMahon (Dexter, Mich.), Robert Small (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Jake Ingman (Saint Paul, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides for altering an authentication technique in response to a detection of a possible attack to which the authentication technique is vulnerable. An authentication provider can recei...