US Patent Issued to Inductive Automation on March 25 for "Secure identity provider authentication for native application to access web service" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,843, issued on March 25, was assigned to Inductive Automation LLC (Folsom, Calif.).

"Secure identity provider authentication for native application to access web service" was invented by Joel Specht (Folsom, Calif.) and Matthew Rojas (Roseville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A native application on a client computing device enables secure user authentication via an identity provider (IdP) for accessing services of a web service provider. The native application forwards a redirect request generated by a main gateway of the service provider and including an IdP uniform resource locator (URL) to a system browser of the client c...