ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,253, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Image based secure access to web page" was invented by Mariano Largo Del Amo (Leganes-Madrid, Spain) and Victor Jurado Martinez (Leganes-Madrid, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediary server provides secure access to a web page of a web-based service to a client terminal upon request of a web server. The intermediary server includes an operating system that runs an instance of a web browser engine, which is configured to produce an image of the web page rendered in the instance of the web browser engine. The web browser engine transmits an a...