US Patent Issued to Lightning Strike on Dec. 9 for "Means and methods of dynamically generating and authenticating passwords" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,683, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Lightning Strike Inc. (San Francisco).

"Means and methods of dynamically generating and authenticating passwords" was invented by Rajesh K. Gupta (San Francisco), Rajat Randev (San Francisco) and Minal Shanghavi (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments contemplate consumers who wish to securely login to a business/vendor without the need to remember or even know the password. A business/vendor wishes to conduct business with a verified consumer without the business undertaking the burden to keep a database of their customer's usernames and passwords. A system operat...