Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Graphical Password To Avoid Shoulder Surfing' Filed by S. Prakash; S. Santhosh; R. Surya; S. Sanjaypalani; and R. Vivin

MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541112615 A) filed by S. Prakash; S. Santhosh; R. Surya; S. Sanjaypalani; and R. Vivin, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, on Nov. 17, 2025, for 'graphical password to avoid shoulder surfing.'

Inventor(s) include S. Prakash; S. Santhosh; R. Surya; S. Sanjaypalani; and R. Vivin.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 9, under issue no. 02/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Traditional authentication methods, such as numeric PINs and text-based passwords, are highly vulnerable to shoulder surfing attacks, where unauthorized individuals steal login information by observing the user's input. This project p...