US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on July 15 for "Stateless cloud authentication for security services" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,072, issued on July 15, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Stateless cloud authentication for security services" was invented by Jinsheng Gu (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing stateless cloud authentication are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/method/computer program product for providing stateless cloud authentication includes receiving a request at a first firewall of a cloud-based security service to access a protected resource; generating an authentication token with opaque information using a cloud authentication service; and verifying the authentication t...