US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 4 for "Mid-session trust assessment" (Texas, North Carolina, Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,980, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Mid-session trust assessment" was invented by Shayne Miel (Durham, N.C.), Josh Matz (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Nancy Cam-Winget (Mountain View, Calif.), Joshua Terry (Round Rock, Texas), Brian Lindauer (Austin, Texas), David William Matteson (Dexter, Mich.), Jen Bammel (Dexter, Mich.) and Courtney Irwin (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides for receiving communications at an authentication service, and the communication is indicative of a change in a security posture of an authenticated session between a user device an...