ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,927, issued on May 26, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Systems and methods for providing a secured password and authentication mechanism for programming and updating software or firmware" was invented by RajeshBabu Nalukurthy (Bangalore, India), SivaSankar Mathuraju (Bangalore, India), Kanaka Nagendra Prasad Naraharisetti (Bangalore, India), Balamurugan Venkatesh (Hosur, India) and Murali R (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing a secured password and authentication mechanism for programming and updating software and firmware are provided. Some methods can in...