Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,281,789) developed by Bilger, Brent R., Los Altos Hills, CA, Patel, Rajesh M., Saratoga, CA, Venugopal, Shailesh K., Gilroy, CA, Copeland, William F., Garland, TX, and Basmaji, Michel J., San Jose, CA, for a “secure storage of passwords.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A device includes a memory and a processor. The processor is to execute the instruction to: receive, from a user device, a username of a user and a string, retrieve a first Message Authentication Code (MAC) and a salt from a database in response to receiving the username and the string, send the first MAC, the salt, and one or more parameters to a Hardware Security Module, HSM, receive, from the HSM, a message indicating whether the first MAC matches a second MAC that the HSM generates based on the one or more parameters and the salt. In addition, the processor to perform one of: authenticate the user when the message indicates that the first MAC matches the second MAC, or not authenticate the user when the message indicates that the first MAC does not match the second MAC.”

The patent application was filed on November 21, 2019 (16/691,157).