ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,624, issued on May 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Screen-analysis based device security" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland), Kai Wang (Santa Monica, Calif.) and David Petrou (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a content-based security for computing devices. An example method includes identifying content rendered by a mobile application, the content being rendered during a session, generating feature vectors from the content and determining that the feature vectors do not match a classification model. The method also includes providing, in ...