US Patent Issued to SAP on July 14 for "Password reset using an asymmetric encryption key pair" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,956, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Password reset using an asymmetric encryption key pair" was invented by Subhamay Barui (Pune, India), Ramesh Gupta (Pune, India) and Jagriti Jalal (Haldwani, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for securely performing a password change. An embodiment operates by receiving a password change request from a user. The password change request comprises an encrypted version of a new password for the user, a cleartext version of the new password, and a login name for the user. The embodiment the...