ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,555, issued on May 13, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automating responses to authentication requests using unsupervised computer learning techniques" was invented by Joshua David Alexander (Austin, Texas), Seth Holloway (Austin, Texas), Alexa Staudt (Atlanta), Ian Michael Glazer (Washington) and William C. Mortimore Jr. (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to automating authentication decisions for a multi-factor authentication scheme based on computer learning. In disclosed embodiments, a mobile device receives a first request corresponding to a factor in a first multi-f...