ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,753, issued on May 13, was assigned to Pindrop Security Inc. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for authentication using browser fingerprinting" was invented by MohammedAli Merchant (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide for authenticating callers to call centers using browser fingerprinting. A call center system or third-party analytics system includes a server that transmits notifications to a caller device that includes an interactive hyperlink or URL to a particular webpage. When a browser of the caller device navigates to the webpage, the server captures certain types of information ab...