ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,402, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Method and system for proxy-driven authentication and authorization for software" was invented by Anuj Teotia (Meerut, India), David P Aubrey (Jersey City, N.J.), Yushin Son (Ramsey, N.J.) and Shilpa Krishnappa (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using a proxy service as an intermediary between an end service and a client for authenticating and authorizing software is provided. The method includes: receiving a first service request from a user; generating and transmitting a request for an identity authentication token by mapping ...