ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,872, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Methods and systems for building rich context for effective password detection in plaintext" was invented by Manish Shukla (Pune, India), Shubham Mukeshbhai Malaviya (Pune, India) and Sachin Premsukh Lodha (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for building rich context for effective password detection in plaintext. Detecting and securing plaintext passwords on hard-disk or storage device is difficult as humans generate passwords in a variety of idiosyncratic ways which results in high ...