ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,933, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Adshield Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for providing advertisement by counteracting on violent advertisement blocking function" was invented by Sang Hyeon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating method of a server to avoid an advertisement blocking instruction may include: receiving HTTP request from a client; acquiring HTTP response to the HTTP request, which includes first advertisement information ("first AD information"); amending the HTTP response; and transferring the amended HTTP response to the client, wherein the amending the HTTP response inc...