ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,928, issued on May 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Password manager accessory" was invented by Steven Lee Fisher-Stawinski (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.), Moitreyee Mukherjee-Roy (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott E. Schneider (Rolesville, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented for a hardware accessory, with embedded logical features, that facilitates communication with a password manager and expeditious text entry in application login dialogue screens. The hardware accessory is embodied as a portable electronic apparatus, such as a USB acce...