ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,050, issued on March 18, was assigned to ObservePoint Inc. (Pleasant Grove, Utah).
"Origin detection for website cookies" was invented by David Smith (Pleasant Grove, Utah), Israel Carvajal (Pleasant Grove, Utah), Robert Mount (Pleasant Grove, Utah), Clinton Eagar (Pleasant Grove, Utah) and Michael Maziarz (Pleasant Grove, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for origin detection for webpage cookies loads a webpage. Loading the webpage causes a browser to store one or more cookies. The computer system creates a first cookie snapshot of the one or more cookies and a first initiator snapshot of one or more initiators ...