ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,889, issued on March 18, was assigned to CyberArk Software Ltd. (Petach-Tikva, Israel).

"Detecting and preventing unauthorized credential change" was invented by Asaf Hecht (Petach-Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques include securely accessing data associated with at least one identity capable of accessing one or more access-controlled network resources; generating an intermediate value based on the data associated with the at least one identity; generating, based on application of a secret logic algorithm to the intermediate value, a secret data element; making available, the secret data element, to be embedded ...