ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,770, issued on June 24, was assigned to LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. (New Tech Park, Singapore).

"Devices and methods to validating multiple different factor categories" was invented by Scott Wentao Li (Cary, N.C.), Igor Stolbikov (Apex, N.C.) and Alfredo Zugasti (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method, device and computer program device are provided including a processor; a storage medium to store a user defined password (UDP) factor and program instructions accessible by the processor; wherein, responsive to execution of the program instructions, the processor to: generate a first machine generated ...