ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,322, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method, device and system for generating passwords" was invented by Garry Bruneau (Chatillon Cedex, France) and Philippe Quesson (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for generating a password for access to a service. The method includes the following steps on a password generating device connected to a user terminal: obtaining a first item of data representative of at least one symbol; depending on the obtained first item of data, obtaining at least one second item of data having at least two symbols for a symbol of...