ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,455, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Securing browser cookies" was invented by Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.) and Marcel M. Moti Yung (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including an apparatus for verifying the integrity of requests. In some aspects, a method includes receiving, from an application, a request including an attestation token of the application. The attestation token includes a set of data that includes at least a public key of the application and a token creation time that indicates a time at which the attestation token was created. The attestati...