ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,345, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Password reset" was invented by Chandrasekhar Revuri (Bangalore, India), Rama Rao Bisa (Bangalore, India), Bala Balaji Gupta M (Bangalore, India) and Mini Thottunkal Thankappan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system may include at least one processor and a memory. The information handling system may be configured to: receive a password reset request associated with a machine identifier of a target information handling system; and in response to the password reset request, provide a payload, wherein the payload inclu...