ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,748, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Authentication proxy for password rotation" was invented by Eric Le Saint (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method, system, and computer program product for rotating a password. According to the method, a proxy server receives a first service ID password from an application server. The proxy server determines whether to use the first service ID password to authenticate the application server at an authentication service based on a query of a database of password changes. Based on the determination of whether...