ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,528, issued on July 1, was assigned to MIRRORTAB CORP. (San Francisco).

"Virtual browser application systems and methods" was invented by Brian M. Silverstein (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments provide a framework for provisioning a virtual browser application environment accessible using a native browser application. The virtual browser application environment is implemented on a virtual machine instance, where the virtual environment is isolated from other functionality of the virtual machine instance. In response to a request to access the environment, a set of access control policies are ident...