ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,429, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and method for authentication as a service" was invented by Chandra Mouli Kharidehal (Hyderabad, India), Sumit Rathi (Hyderabad, India), Gagan deep (Hyderabad, India) and Santosh Kumar Das (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system includes a server. The server is communicatively coupled to a data repository and is configured to store a data in the data repository. The server is further configured to receive a first authentication information, the first authentication information comprising a login and a password for an ent...