US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Aug. 5 for "Portal control of web site credentials using asymmetric public/private key encryption without user selection or user password management" (Massachusetts, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,868, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Portal control of web site credentials using asymmetric public/private key encryption without user selection or user password management" was invented by Joshua Abraham (Sharon, Mass.) and Steven Sinks (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information-security method for securely accessing a web site through non-password user authentication to an intermediary portal is disclosed. A hardware/biometric login authenticates a user to a portal, which provides 1-click user access to web sites. The portal generates a strong password for each web s...