ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,256, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Device login authentications" was invented by Rosilet Retnamoni Braduke (Spring, Texas), Wei Ze Liu (Spring, Texas) and Rajesh A. Shah (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples include a CPU coupled to a controller, the CPU to receive a user credential usable by the login executable code to perform device login authentication, determine a first hash value based on the login executable code, determine a second hash value based on the user credential, obtain a third hash value and a fourth hash value from the controller, wherein th...