US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on March 18 for "Apparatus and method for forensic password reset" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,078, issued on March 18, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Apparatus and method for forensic password reset" was invented by Eric Gunn (St. Charles, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein describes using a password reset agent to automatically change the password of a computing device. A password reset agent is executed at a root level of the computing device, wherein the password reset agent is associated with a public key. A data source is polled by the password reset agent for a private key associated with the public key. Based on finding the private key on the data source, a reset...