ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,034, issued on June 17, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Secure embedded web browser" was invented by K Venkat Ramana Reddy (Bangalore, India), Senthilvel R (Bangalore, India) and Sundip Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including receiving, at an embedded browser embedded in an application, a request to access data designated by a uniform resource locator (URL) specified by the request. The method also includes intercepting, by a method interceptor, an application programming interface (API) call to access the data designated by the URL. Intercepting is performed prior to execution...