US Patent Issued to Kyndryl on Feb. 17 for "System and method to detect and prevent keylogging attacks" (American, Costa Rican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,532, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"System and method to detect and prevent keylogging attacks" was invented by Cesar Augusto Rodriguez Bravo (Alajuela, Costa Rica) and Kim A. Eckert (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an first aspect of the disclosure, there is a computer-implemented method which includes: obtaining, by a computing device, a password entered by an account user, placing, by the computing device, the password in memory of a device; generating, by the computing device, a fake password by randomly injecting characters into the password; storing, by the computing device, the fak...