US Patent Issued to Plaid on March 25 for "Browser-based aggregation" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,907, issued on March 25, was assigned to Plaid Inc. (San Francisco).

"Browser-based aggregation" was invented by Warren Lowell Putnam (New York) and Michael George Del Monte (Garrison, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for aggregating account data, and more specifically, a system and method for aggregation of financial account data that provides enhanced privacy and security protections to a user by enabling the user to maintain custody of his or her login credentials. A syncing agent in coordination with a system add-on coordinates log-in to a remote system and storage of session information. Syncing agent uti...