US Patent Issued to Imprivata on Sept. 23 for "Delayed and provisional user authentication for medical devices" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,415, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Imprivata Inc. (Lexington, Mass.).

"Delayed and provisional user authentication for medical devices" was invented by Meinhard Dieter Ullrich (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Representative embodiments of operating a secured device requiring user authentication include receiving a request from a user for operating the device without prior authentication; granting the user temporary access to the device in accordance with a security policy that specifies a predetermined time interval and/or a predetermined number of device operations within which authentication must occur to con...