US Patent Issued to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA on Sept. 1 for "Computer system and method for secure password reset of password protected devices" (Massachusetts, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,871, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA INC. (Foxboro, Morocco).

"Computer system and method for secure password reset of password protected devices" was invented by Chad Andrew Lloyd (Andover, Mass.), Gregg Reavis (Andover, Mass.) and Michael William Pyle (Hermitage, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system for providing secure password reset functionality for a password protected device. Receiving, in a password reset computer server, is a request code for enabling password reset functionality for the password protected device. The request code is parsed to identify the pa...