ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,523, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Web application leveraging bifurcated session authentication" was invented by Harigopal Kanaka Bapiraja Ponnapalli (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing enhanced web browser security that leverages a bifurcated web-based application authentication system. The system may include a web-based application configured to, after authentication of login information, generate a session cookie authentication information. The authentication information may match some or all of the data stored in the session cookie. The system may include...