US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Aug. 11 for "Local hash salt to prevent credential stuffing attacks" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,903, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Local hash salt to prevent credential stuffing attacks" was invented by Vijay Kumar Yarabolu (Telangana, India) and Gowthaman Sundararaj (Tamilnadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to authentication. A computing platform may send, to a wearable device, an internet of things (IoT) vector key. The computing platform may receive an application access request from the wearable device, which may include authentication credentials. The computing platform may send, to the wearable device, a reference key comprising a seque...