US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 28 for "Using co-located secondary devices to protect against cookie theft" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,105, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Using co-located secondary devices to protect against cookie theft" was invented by Adrian Isles (Oakland, Calif.), Philipp Pfeiffenberger (San Francisco) and David Turner (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a service provider platform, a service request from a first client device, and a first instance of an authentication token associated with the service request and generated by the first client device. The service provider platform may further receive, from a second client device, a second instance of the authent...