US Patent Issued to Bank of America on April 22 for "Generating password complexity rules based on attack pattern analysis using hash segmentation" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,203, issued on April 22, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Generating password complexity rules based on attack pattern analysis using hash segmentation" was invented by Vijay Kumar Yarabolu (Telangana, India) and Gowthaman Sundararaj (Tamilnadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to a network traffic monitoring platform. The platform may train an attack pattern analysis model to output a behavior profile and a cumulative attack score. The platform may identify a password failure rate spike. The platform may extract a password hash from the network traffic. The platform may ge...