ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,756, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Client-based enforcement for mid-session reauthentication" was invented by Shayne Miel (Durham, N.C.), Brian Lindauer (Austin, Texas), Glenn J. Stempeck (Livonia, Mich.), David William Matteson (Dexter, Mich.), Ian Edward Beals (Saline, Mich.), Josh Matz (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Edgar Calderon (Fairfax, Va.) and Laura Cole (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides protection to communications after establishing a secured connection to a secured website or application. An authentication service, after establishing a secured...