ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,097, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic transaction-aware web application authentication using call intercepts" was invented by Walter Theodore Hulick Jr. (Pearland, Texas), David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada) and Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, the techniques herein are directed toward a dynamic transaction-aware web application authentication using call intercepts. In one embodiment, a method comprises: intercepting, by a monitoring process, calls made for transactions within an executing appli...