ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,913, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Gen Digital Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for utilizing contextual digital fingerprints to protect against browser-based malicious attacks" was invented by Iskander Sanchez Rola (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method for utilizing contextual digital fingerprints to protect against browser-based malicious attacks may include (i) detecting an execution of one or more fingerprinting application programming interface (API) calls utilized by a target website for providing access to a user, (ii) generating identity data comprising specific ...