ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,263, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Web browser extension script obfuscation system" was invented by Andrew Paul Montgomery (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device comprising a web browser processes instructions to load, by the web browser, first executable code of a browser extension. The first executable code causes the web browser to load a file, wherein the file comprises file content and metadata. The web browser decodes second executable code from the metadata and processes the second executable code to extract obfuscated information embedded in the file content....