ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,206, issued on March 11, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Providing single-sign-on for multifactor authentication" was invented by Douglas Max Grover (Rigby, Idaho) and Michael F. Angelo (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to authenticate is received. For example, the request to authenticate may be to authenticate to a software application or a device. The request to authenticate is for a first authentication level for a user. The first authentication level is one of a plurality of authentication levels for the user. The request to authenticate is authorized based on a provided one or more authen...