US Patent Issued to Gen Digital on Oct. 20 for "Determining password strength based on personal information and activity" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,822, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Gen Digital Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Determining password strength based on personal information and activity" was invented by Lei Gu (Bedford, Mass.) and Iskander Sanchez Rola (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide context-aware password strength evaluation. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a user password, wherein the user password is associated with at least one of a newly created password, an updated password, or an existing password to be analyzed; parsing the user password into one or more segments; determining, for each segment, discov...