ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,701, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for creation of compliant password by inplace feedback to password composition policy" was invented by Manish Shukla (Pune, India), Sreecharan Bojja (Pune, India), Vijayanand Mahadeo Banahatti (Pune, India) and Sachin Premsukh Lodha (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is a need for design and implementation of interfaces for providing user-friendly feedback while creating and updating compliant passwords. This disclosure relates to a method of creating compliant password by in-place feedback to a password compositi...