US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 25 for "Authentication delegation to support initiation of a secure user workflow from an unsecure device" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,549, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Authentication delegation to support initiation of a secure user workflow from an unsecure device" was invented by Saurabh Bansal (Woodinville, Wash.), Kyle Marsh (Redmond, Wash.), Ibrahim Mohamed Esmat (Cedar Park, Texas) and Jimmy Yu Wu (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed method allows an unsecure device to initiate a user workflow contingent upon access to a permission-controlled resource. The method includes receiving, from the unsecure device, a delegation instruction including: a first token associated with a fi...