ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,112, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Hardware-backed password security for cloud systems" was invented by Prasad Peddada (Alameda, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of data processing is described. The method includes receiving, at a server host, a login request that includes a clear text password for an account. The method further includes retrieving, from a database, a payload stored in association with the account. The payload may indicate a hash value of a user configured password for the account, a hashing algorithm used for generation of the hash value, an initialization vector, a...