ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,240, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Protected content contamination prevention" was invented by John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.), Diane Marie Stamboni (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Elton de Souza (Scarborough, Canada), Kavita Sehgal (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Sneha Mary Varghese (Fishkill, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for protected content contamination prevention is provided. The present invention may include detecting an attempt to access a new content by a computing device. The present invention may include determining ...