US Patent Issued to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES on Oct. 20 for "Efficient mutual authentication of server and client" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,561, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Efficient mutual authentication of server and client" was invented by Narendra Kumar Venkata Nelabhotla (Hyderabad, India), Lakshmi Padmaja Maddali (Hyderabad, India) and Harika Narumanchi (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Password based authentication is one of the common forms of authentication used in practice. However, when a user/client device enrolls with a server using password information, the authentication process exposes hash of password information to the server which is prone to various types of passwords guessing atta...