US Patent Issued to Citibank on Oct. 7 for "Cross-platform access control" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,722, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Citibank N.A. (New York).

"Cross-platform access control" was invented by Umesh Reddy (Irving, Texas), Akash Gujarathi (Irving, Texas) and Bhavana Nagavarapu (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cross-platform authorization are disclosed herein. A system may receive, at a server, a request to generate an authorization token for a service. The request may include an indication of a service public key and an encrypted service account token. The system may decrypt, using a second service key, the encrypted service account token into a service account token. The syste...