ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,774, issued on July 8, was assigned to DLD Technologies Corp. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Automatic user authentication with proxy servers" was invented by Shuang Ji (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for implementing a non-interactive and automatic way of facilitating user authentication with a proxy server is disclosed. At least, the technique disclosed includes determining a request to access a web server by a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) agent on a client device, retrieving a proxy configuration file from a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) assigned to the client device, determining, using the proxy...