US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Nov. 18 for "Authorizing and initiating secure tunneling and user-access to servers based on user group authorization information in secure communication certificates" (Minnesota, Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,956, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Authorizing and initiating secure tunneling and user-access to servers based on user group authorization information in secure communication certificates" was invented by Catherine L. Wegleitner (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Ryan Michael Gregus (Minneapolis), Adam James Kiheri (Escondido, Calif.), Jeffrey Martin Jaynes (Golden Valley, Minn.), Dileep Sivaraman (Plymouth, Minn.), Rajkumar Srinivasan (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Mukund Jagan Nathan (Lake Worth, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides for authenticating access to servers using enter...