ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,468, issued on July 29, was assigned to Citizens Financial Group Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Single sign-on (SSO) multi-identity provider (IDP) engine" was invented by Rajesh K. Shah (Parsippany, N.J.), Arif Sufi (Harrison, N.J.), Balamurugan Muthu (Phoenix), Sudip Mukhopadhyay (Jamaica, N.Y.), Deepak Nayak (Dayton, N.J.), Christine Roberts (Wayland, Mass.), Ryan Pearson (Cumberland, R.I.), Jeffrey M. Mayerson (Addison, Texas), Christopher C. Ebeling (Westwood, Mass.), Milind Zirpe (Rye Brook, N.Y.) and Kalyan C. Gottipati (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unified platform may comprise a combination of independent frameworks th...