ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,026, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Auto-form fill based website authentication" was invented by Clifton Kaznocha (Mountain View, Calif.), Erik Gustavson (Los Angeles) and Scott Kriz (Manhattan Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a website authentication is provided. The method includes receiving a reference uniform resource locator (URL) at a browser and determining whether the reference URL adheres to an authentication protocol including a credential identifier and a web authentication host URL. When the reference URL adheres to the authentication protocol, the method als...