ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,564, issued on July 1, was assigned to Obsidian Security Inc. (Newport Beach, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to perform phishing detection and device attestation via browser extension" was invented by Craig John Slusher (Havertown, Pa.), Marcus Roland McCurdy (Haddon Township, N.J.) and Joren B. McReynolds (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a browser extension for a browser is installed at the first compute device. A first log indicating activities tracked by the browser extension as being performed at a software as a service (SaaS) application via the browser and by the user is generated. A representation of the ...