ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,609, issued on March 11, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Chat attachment screening" was invented by Sangeetha Uthamalingam Santharam (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and systems for screening chat attachments. A chat attachment screening system monitors a chat window of a first computing device associated with a first user during an interaction session between the first user and a second user. An upload of an attachment is detected based on the monitoring. Access to the attachment from a second computing device associated with the second user...