US Patent Issued to Bank of America on July 1 for "Detecting and preventing installation and execution of malicious browser extensions" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,446, issued on July 1, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Detecting and preventing installation and execution of malicious browser extensions" was invented by Ricardo Varanda (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting and preventing malicious browser extensions. A computing platform may send rule information to a master browser extension on a computing device including a set of rules defining reportable behavior associated with one or more other browser extensions. Subsequently, the computing platform may receive report information from the master browser...