ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,617, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Password authentication using cryptographic key handle-based authentication records" was invented by Chaitanya Gali Kumar (Bangalore, India), Amit Prajapati (Bangalore, India) and Ancitta Alphonse (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process includes receiving credentials associated with a request to access a computer platform. The credentials include a password and a user identification. The process includes determining a key handle and a reference cryptographic digest corresponding to the user identification. The process ...