ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,811, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Deterministic hash to secure personal data and passwords" was invented by John Wagener (West Lakeland, Minn.) and Joanna Negrete (Brentwood, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed herein a computing apparatus having a hardware platform, including a processor circuit and a memory; a web-enabled application; and stored instructions within the memory to instruct the processor circuit to: determine that an input field of the web-enabled application has requested a password or personal data from a user; receive an input value; apply a deterministic f...