ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,884, issued on April 29.
"Systems and methods for combating online security risks" was invented by Ian Cohen (Redwood City, Calif.), Jeremy Barnett (Redwood City, Calif.) and Peter Joles (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for inspecting, identifying, blocking, and combatting browser security vulnerabilities. In various embodiments, an inspection module may execute on a browser accessing a web domain on a first computing device. Inspection modules may dynamically analyze a set of scripts associated with the web domain to identify privacy vulnerabilities. Such vulnerabilities may be blo...