ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,168, issued on April 22, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"System and method for single sign on across multiple applications with license enablement" was invented by Christopher Nguyen (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Louis Ormond (Irvine, Calif.), Marianne Kodimer (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Peter McLain (Portland, Ore.), Chang Park (Lake Forest, Calif.) and Silvy Wilson (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multifunction peripheral (MFP) includes user selectable functions that call home applications on the device that direct it to work cooperatively with cloud service providers. To avoid requiring user...