ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,879, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Progressively increasing a login information length" was invented by Amer Aref Hassan (Kirkland, Wash.) and Roy D. Kuntz (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for preventing login lockout to a restricted space is provided. The system identifies first login information and prespecified login information that are used to access the restricted space. The prespecified login information has the first login information and an additional character. The system determines an event of failed login attempts based on fail...