US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Oct. 7 for "Single device-level passcode that provides automated access to multiple computing devices and passcode-protected applications and web sites/services" (North Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,253, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Single device-level passcode that provides automated access to multiple computing devices and passcode-protected applications and web sites/services" was invented by Maharaj Mukherjee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and George Anthony Albero (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single device-level passcode serves to unlock a passcode vault, such that, automated login/access to other computing devices, applications, networks and/or websites/web services, which have the user's passcodes stored in the vault, occurs. Specifically, in the case of other compu...