ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,474, issued on March 18, was assigned to GEN DIGITAL INC. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for enforcing strict network connectivity and storage access during online payments" was invented by Bahaa Naamneh (Oslo, Norway), David Luz Silva (Dublin) and Iskander Sanchez Rola (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method for enforcing strict network connectivity and storage access during online payments may include (i) determining that a webpage in a tab of a browser application executing on the computing device includes a payment page for an e-commerce website, (ii) based on determining t...