ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,323, issued on July 22, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Security through randomized dynamic keyboard or keypad transformation" was invented by Victor Salamon (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system (IHS) (e.g., a terminal, automated teller machine, etc.) initiates a password input session, creates a Random Transformation Algorithm (RTA) for the input session, instructs an IHS user to apply the RTA to entry of a key sequence of the password, accepts entry of the key sequence from the user via an IHS keyboard and/or keypad, and reverses transformation of the user entry of t...