ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,276, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Robotic process automation based password management" was invented by Laurentiu Gabriel Ghergu (Bucharest, Romania), Florentina Cristina Moise (Bucharest, Romania), Ciprian Constantinescu (Bucharest, Romania) and Diana Acsinia (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to improve password management through the utilization of robotic process automation robot, embodiments run, through a continuous integration server, a deployment process. Further, responsive to encountering an access-controlled resource that requires...