US Patent Issued to Bank of America on April 7 for "System and method for password expiration management" (North Carolina, Connecticut, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,785, issued on April 7, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for password expiration management" was invented by Harry Douglas Kirby (Tega Cay, S.C.), Robert Alexander Levandowski Jr. (North Granby, Conn.) and Olga Caroline Kocharyan (Matthews, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes sending a notification to a user device of a user that a password reset is required. A hash of a password is received from the user device at a reset date and a reset time. A default expiration date and a default expiration time are determined for the password based on the reset date and the reset time...