US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 3 for "Enabling SSO for embedded applications" (Washington, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,771, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Enabling SSO for embedded applications" was invented by Brian James Melton-Grace (Seattle), Amarpreet Singh (Mill Creek, Wash.), Pavel Michailov (Redmond, Wash.), Adrian Frei (Seattle), William Alden Bartlett (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Shane Llewellyn Oatman (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enabling a hub application to perform token brokering on behalf of an embedded application, which is embedded in the hub application, to thereby hydrate an authentication state for the embedded application are disclosed. An authentication...