ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,523, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Machine-learning for password guess risk determination" was invented by Rocio Cabrera Lozoya (Antibes, France), Slim Trabelsi (Biot, France) and Carlos Rafael Ocanto Davila (Neuilly sur Seine, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, an efficient, automated method to generate password guesses is provided by leveraging online text sources along with natural language processing techniques. Specifically, semantic structures in passwords are exploited to aid system in generating better guesses. This not only helps cover instances where traditional...