ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,083, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Utilization of service workers to encrypt application data" was invented by Andrew Ricchuiti (McLean, Va.), Mark Morrison (McLean, Va.) and Lathan Carter (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for a service worker framework are provided herein. When a web application is accessed through a web browsing application, the web browsing application may invoke a service worker specifically created for the web application. The service worker may serve as an intermediary between the web application and the web browsing application and may i...