US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 30 for "Web-app authentication and agent handoff" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,132, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Web-app authentication and agent handoff" was invented by Siddharth Uppal (Bothell, Wash.) and Prem Sai Reddy Kareti (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable medium that enable a seamless handoff of authentication states between an application of a first service (e.g., a web-application) and a component of the first service that invokes a function within the second application (e.g., such as bots or agents of the first service executing within collaborative platforms...