ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,928, issued on Aug. 12.

"User authentication techniques" was invented by Sai Xu (Nanjing, China), Taodong Lu (Nanjing, China) and Qin Zhang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One disclosed method involves receiving a first plurality of character keycodes corresponding to authenticate a first user to a first application, determining, based at least in part on the first user operating the client device, a first conversion process applicable to the first user, converting, using the first conversion process, the first plurality of character keycodes into a second plurality of character keycodes different than the first plural...