US Patent Issued to Canon on May 5 for "Information processing apparatus, method for displaying password strength, and medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,707, issued on May 5, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, method for displaying password strength, and medium" was invented by Kyohei Takeda (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Hosoda (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuki Narita (Chiba, Japan) and Mayumi Shibao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a user interface. The apparatus displays a software keyboard for inputting a password, using the user interface; in a case where a password strength meter indicating a strength of a password is set to be displayed using the user interface, calculates a strength of a password input from the soft...