ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,091, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Method for authentication with identity providers" was invented by Martin Smolny (Boeblingen, Germany), Thomas Durr (Magstadt, Germany), Michael Beck (Bad Teinach-Zavelstein, Germany) and Georg Ochs (Moetzingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for authentication with identity providers via a federating authorization server, wherein the federating authorization server has at least one interface to at least one identity provider. Each identity provider is configured to validate user identities...