ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,995, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Passwordless vault for password security" was invented by Richard Victor Kisley (Charlotte, N.C.), Juan F. Vargas (Cary, N.C.) and Mark E. Maresh (Winter Garden, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Passwords are repeatably generated for selected applications in a passwordless vault by applying an algorithm to certain stored application-specific information and a personal identification number, or PIN, provided by a requesting user. Upon authentication, the user requests a password for a selected application and enters an appropriate PIN. The ...