ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,862, issued on March 25, was assigned to AppOmni Inc. (San Francisco).
"Detection of unknown applications" was invented by Brian Soby (Carbondale, Colo.), Timothy Bach (Emeryville, Calif.), Michael Brancato (Lexington, Ky.), Drew Gatchell (Berryville, Va.) and Jason Tesarz (Templeton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detection of unknown applications is disclosed, including: detecting an event associated with accessing an application; determining target information associated with the event; and identifying the application from the target information."
The patent was filed on Jan. 23, 2024, under Application No. 18/420,638.
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