ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,425, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Technology for using a simulated state of a digital twin as a password" was invented by Devang Dineshchandra Patel (Dublin, Calif.), Sagar Krupa Satya Kunavarapu (Bengaluru, India), Apparsamy Perumal (Bangalore, India), Jian Wu (Mansfield, Texas) and Cheranellore Vasudevan (Bastrop, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authenticating access to a system through the following operations: (i) determining at least one digital twin corresponding to a user; (ii) setting, by the user, modifications to at least one digital twin; (iii) generating, b...