ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,039, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Integrated authentication system and method" was invented by Frederik Siegmund (Abingdon, Great Britain), Rajkumar Kannan (Houston) and Waikhom Imocha Singh (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include sending, to a provisioning service and by an application executing on a virtual machine, a local authentication token for a user of the virtual machine. The provisioning service may use the local authentication token to generate a portable access token. The method may further include receiving, from the provisioning service, th...