US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 23 for "Anchored Wi-Fi fingerprinting for risk-based authentication" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,851, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Anchored Wi-Fi fingerprinting for risk-based authentication" was invented by Vishal Satyendra Desai (San Jose, Calif.), Shayne Miel (Durham, N.C.) and Ardalan Alizadeh (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for using an anchored endpoint to enhance MFA authentication of a client device. A method performed at least in part by a security service includes authenticating of a client device connecting to a secure resource. The method also includes determining a first Wi-Fi fingerprint of the client device, de...