ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,639, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Computer access control using registration and communication secrets" was invented by Veera Sekhar Babu Golla (Hyderabad, India), Niranjan Samanu (Hyderabad, India), Rakesh Kumar Gyanchandani (Hyderabad, India) and Fernando Ros (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request associated with access to a restricted computer resource by a computer application of a device is received via a first communication medium. It is determined that the request is provided by the device with an IP address not included in a group of authorized IP addresses. A ...