ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,197, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SpyCloud Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Filtering passwords based on a plurality of criteria" was invented by David Endler (Austin, Texas), Alen Puzic (Austin, Texas) and Edward Ross (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a process, including: obtaining a first password to a private computer network; determining, with a credential-monitoring application within the private computer network, whether the first password satisfies one or more criteria by: comparing the first password to a set of compromised credentials within a database within the private computer network; and determini...