US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on July 15 for "Selectively and intelligently displaying authentication notifications to protect users" (Washington, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,098, issued on July 15, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Selectively and intelligently displaying authentication notifications to protect users" was invented by Poulomi Bandyopadhyay (Sammamish, Wash.), Rajat Luthra (Redmond, Wash.), Lee Francis Walker (Blacksburg, Va.), Zachary Michael Edwards (Monroe, Wash.) and Colin Trent (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authentication request notifications are selectively suppressed, reducing notification fatigue and susceptibility to social engineering attacks. Authentication request notifications may be suppressed by not presenting a push notificatio...