ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,856, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Rendering contextual security information determined in-browser with web pages of cloud and SAAS vendors" was invented by Krishnan Shankar Narayan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A browser extension produces a single view comprising content of web pages of a target vendor requested by a customer and corresponding security information for the target vendor maintained for the customer. Fingerprints of the target vendor's web page URLs and web page elements corresponding to resources, respectively, are determined. As the web browser ...