US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 12 for "Device authorization using a directory system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,664, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Device authorization using a directory system" was invented by Mayukh Ray (Sammamish, Wash.) and Alistair James Lowe (Ipswich, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described which obtain a service token at an edge device. Embodiments obtain a device certificate from an authentication service based on a private key which is associated with a public key. The public key is further associated with a device identifier for the edge device at a directory service. Embodiments send a request for a service token to an a...