ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,666, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Recovery request" was invented by Erich Wolfgang Gestacker McMillan (Spring, Texas), Tevin Jaupaul Richards (Spring, Texas) and Baraneedharan Anbazhagan (Spring, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example storage medium is described, wherein the storage medium comprises instructions that, when executed cause a processor of an electronic device to store authentication data in a first memory of the electronic device. Upon detecting a failure to decrypt information, the processor is to perform an authentication with a webservice, receive a ...