US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 4 for "Testing for unchanged passwords in IoT devices" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,593, issued on March 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Testing for unchanged passwords in IoT devices" was invented by Eknath Venkataramani (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agent running on an IoT device of a client's network may receive a default password from a provider network and use the received default password to determine whether the password assigned to the IoT device has been changed from the default password to a different one. The agent may retrieve a salt string, a hashing algorithm, and a hashed string from a password database of the IoT device, combine the salt string with the received d...