ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,543, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Browser-level runtime supply chain security and attack detection" was invented by Safwan Mahmud Khan (Woodinville, Wash.) and Michael Hendrickx (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums are described for enabling runtime supply chain security of web applications and the discovery of active malware attacks. For example, a server is configured to receive CSP-based data from browsers executing on various clients. Such data may be received via a browser extension or via a...