US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 11 for "Securely accessing a break-glass account" (Massachusetts, New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,919, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Securely accessing a break-glass account" was invented by Seema M. Tahaliyani (Southborough, Mass.), Yuanyuan Zhang (Newark, Calif.) and Ananthakrishnan Balakrishnan (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can receive, from a remote computer, request data that identifies a request associated with a user account for credentials that are configured to access a computing resource, wherein the request data comprises a concealed value, and wherein the concealed value comprises a deployment public key that is concealed with an ephemeral secret key....