ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,289, issued on May 5, 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: "Methods, systems, and devices for data processing are described. A server host may receive a login request that includes a clear text password for an account associated with a tenant of a multi-tenant cloud platform. The server host may retrieve an encrypted payload associated with the account. The encrypted payload may include a hash value of a user-configured password for the account and an indication of a hashing algorithm used to t...