US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 20 for "Multi-factor authentication for IoT devices" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,582, issued on May 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-factor authentication for IoT devices" was invented by Rajesh Indira Viswambharan (Karnataka, India), Ram Mohan Ravindranath (Karnataka, India) and Prashanth Patil (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) for an Internet Of Things (IoT) device. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a network connection request from the IoT device to connect to a network. In one aspect, the method includes fetching authentication informatio...