ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,161, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Humana Inc. (Louisville, Ky.).

"Resiliency architecture for identity provisioning and verification" was invented by Hari Tadepalli (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Parthasarathi Chakraborty (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identity access and management ("IAM") systems with resiliency features and methods related to the same are provided. An identity proxy is interposed between user systems and each of two or more identity provider ("IDP") systems. The identity proxy routes authentication requests, challenges, and responses between the user systems and the IDP systems based on availability...