US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on July 22 for "Secondary data encryption via browser extension" (District Of Columbia, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,756, issued on July 22, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Secondary data encryption via browser extension" was invented by Anthony Glynn (Washington), Soumendra Bhattacharya (Union City, Calif.) and Collin Berman (Snoqualmie, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for protecting sensitive data even when Transport Layer Security (TLS) communication sessions are compromised. A computing device may send, via a web browser plugin of a web browser application executing on the computing device and to one or more remote servers, a request for a server secret that co...