US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 1 for "Dynamically blocking credential attacks using identity intelligence" (Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,882, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamically blocking credential attacks using identity intelligence" was invented by Bruno dos Santos Silva (Mckinney, Texas) and Cheng-Ta Lee (Chamblee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented apparatus and related method prevent credential attacks. The method receives authentication transactions (ATs) comprising AT features (ATFs). The method then performs clustering, to produce clustered ATFs (CATFs) from the ATFs utilizing rule-based clustering. The clustering may operate by assigning user credentials: 1) from a same s...