US Patent 12003503 Multi-factor authentication system and method

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) on a computer configured for robotic process automation (RPA) using task-executing bot(s) includes, responsive to a log-in request from the task-executing bot to a gatekeeping first server, at the task-executing bot, responsive to receiving an MFA challenge from the first server, acquiring a time-dependent MFA security token from a code generating algorithm associated with a pre-authenticated security bot perceived by the first server to be at a different address than the task-executing bot, the security bot having undergone a one-time synchronization at set-up to support RPA during which an association is established between the security and task-executing bots such that the association validates the security bot as a secondary device within MFA to automate subsequent MFA and inserting the time-dependent MFA security token into a reply to the MFA challenge and sending the reply to the first server.