ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,962, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Authentication and authorization of requester apparatuses in network systems" was invented by Anatoliy Panasyuk (Seattle) and Luis Irun-Briz (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to examples, an apparatus includes a processor that receives a request from a requester apparatus to access a target apparatus. The processor may provide a token valid to the requester apparatus upon determining that the requester apparatus is authenticated to access the target apparatus, in which the token complies with and is sent via a centra...