US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 9 for "Application identification" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,587, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Application identification" was invented by David Steven Gross (Cincinnati), Jennifer Lee Bammel (Dexter, Mich.), David William Matteson (Dexter, Mich.), Christopher Carl Cassell (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Kyle David Mills (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for identifying an application (e.g., accessing application) that is attempting to access a resource. In some examples, access may be managed by an authentication service. When an access request is received at the authentication service from an applica...