ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,073, issued on March 18, was assigned to Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. (Ramsey, N.J.).
"Method and system for offline authentication" was invented by Subramanyam Badri (Livermore, Calif.) and Randy Cruz Soriano (San Leandro, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable program code are disclosed for offline authentication of users for access to web applications. The method includes requesting, by a processor, access for a user to one or more relying party applications; receiving, by the processor, a redirection request from the one or more relying party applications...