ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,649, issued on March 4, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Super-cookie identification for stolen cookie detection" was invented by Matan Marudi (Or Yehuda, Israel), Yuval Bercovich (Givatayim, Israel) and Yarden Raiskin (Petaa-Tiqwa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented for stolen cookie detection. An authentication request is received for a user to access a website using a web browser executable at the user's device. A series of storage locations available on the device for storing web cookies is identified and sorted in order of increasing fraud risk starting from a first storage lo...