US Patent Issued to Bank of America on July 8 for "Real-time adjustment of the volume of passcode entry authentication attempts" (North Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,528, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Real-time adjustment of the volume of passcode entry authentication attempts" was invented by George Anthony Albero (Charlotte, N.C.) and Maharaj Mukherjee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Real-time adjustment of the volume of passcode entry authentication attempts is performed based on systematic determinations of the likelihood that the passcode entrant is the rightful holder/user of the active passcode. Specifically, after an entered passcode has been determined to be incorrect, a determination is made as to the likelihood that the pa...