ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,504, issued on July 1, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Passing authentication information via parameters" was invented by Justin Lewis (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Abhiram Kasina (San Bruno, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for passing account authentication information via parameters. A server can provide, to a client device, an account parameter derived from an account credential used to authenticate a first application to insert into a link. The link can include an address referencing a second application. The account parameter can be passed from the first application to the second appl...