ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,742, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Method and system for secure password migration between authentication servers" was invented by Nikesh Pl (Bengaluru, India), Vipin Sihare (Bengaluru, India) and Pavan Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for securely performing a password migration between authentication servers where the password is end-to-end encrypted and hashed are provided. The method includes: after the user has received first and second public keys from the first and second servers, and after the user has stored, in a memory, first and second ...