ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,508, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Distributed output device credential caching" was invented by Tom Haapanen (Ontario, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for distributed output device credential caching. An output device authenticates a user for accessing the output device. The output device receives a request to access a protected remote resource. The output device determines that credentials, for accessing the protected remote resource, are not stored at the output device. The output device retrieves data that specifies output device peers. The output device obtains the creden...