ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,119, issued on June 17, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated manipulation and monitoring of embeddable browsers" was invented by Caitlin Tierney Roberts (Los Angeles), Tairan Zhang (Los Angeles), Robert Andrew Toledo (Los Angeles), Aaron Craig (Los Angeles) and Taylor James Harwood (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to monitoring network traffic of an embeddable browser displayed by an application executing on a mobile computing device. In some embodiments, a first layer of the application manipulates one or more user interface elements displayed in the embeddable ...