US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Dec. 16 for "Preventing user interaction hijacking attacks by blocking interactions with obscured components" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,223, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Preventing user interaction hijacking attacks by blocking interactions with obscured components" was invented by Bernardo Rufino (Waltham Cross, Great Britain), Linus Tufvesson (London), Edward Cunningham (London) and Alan Michael Stokes (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes detecting a user interaction with a particular region of a graphical user interface (GUI), and determining that the user interaction will be consumed by a particular user interface (UI) component that is overlaid by a plurality of UI components configured to allow the ...