G06F 21/45
Structures or tools for the administration of authentication
G06F21/45 (Structures or tools for the administration of authentication) appears on 3,329 US grants and 3,659 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Systems and methods of account verification upgrade6 Oct 2026US 12,754,990 B2Apple Inc.
- Automatic credential generation for authentication penetration testing6 Oct 2026US 12,754,994 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Passwordless vault for password security6 Oct 2026US 12,754,995 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Machine learning model parameter based encryption6 Oct 2026US 12,754,996 B2HiddenLayer, Inc.
- Password setting method and information processing device29 Sep 2026US 12,748,833 B2Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
- Secure biometric algorithm provision8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310769 A1HID Czech s.r.o.
- Authentication with dynamic user identification8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310770 A1U.S. Bank National Association
- Information processing system and method and non-transitory computer readable medium24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288933 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Infrastructure for remote profile provisioning24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288934 A1Thales Dis France SAS
- Systems and methods for tracking and authenticating data24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288935 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Behavioral profiling method and system to authenticate a user381US 9,185,095 B1United Services Automobile Association (USAA) · 2015
- System and method for providing resource sharing, synchronizing, media coordination, transcoding, and traffic management in a vehicular environment380US 9,083,581 B1Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2015
- Tokenized data security321US 8,595,812 B2Sabre Inc. · 2013
- User identification and authentication system using ultra long identification keys and ultra large databases of identification keys for secure remote terminal access to a host computer310US 5,771,291 A1998
- Method to protect information on a computer storage device268US 5,677,952 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1997