US Patent Issued to Lemon on July 1 for "Security status based on hidden information" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,558, issued on July 1, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Security status based on hidden information" was invented by Markus Jakobsson (Culver City, Calif.), Hamed Ashouri (Culver City, Calif.), Shreshth Luthra (Los Angeles) and Hui Cao (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining and presenting security status are described herein. The disclosed techniques include collecting information associated with an item; determining a security status associated with the item by classifying the item into one of a plurality of classifications based on the information associated with the item; p...