ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,485, issued on July 29, was assigned to Strata Identity Inc. (Niwot, Colo.).

"Systems, methods, and storage media for controlling user access to an application" was invented by Christopher Marie (Denver), Carl Eric Leach (Carlsbad, Calif.), Eric Olden (Niwot, Colo.) and Warren Fernandes (Erie, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling user access to an application is disclosed, where the system is configured to receive a request to access the application from a user, the application associated with an identity provider and a datastore; route the request to an intermediary; redirect the request to an identity provi...