US Patent Issued to Gen Digital on Sept. 22 for "Systems and methods for password recovery within an untrusted environment" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,499, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Gen Digital Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for password recovery within an untrusted environment" was invented by Daniel Kats (Los Angeles) and Beyza Bozdemir (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for password recovery within an untrusted environment may include (i) deconstructing an encryption key associated with accessing a password for a target user into key components, (ii) distributing the key components to a random subset of users associated with a password manager service, (iii) authenticating recovery signal data associated with a request to re...