US Patent Issued to Plaid on March 25 for "System and method for maintaining internet anonymity via client fingerprint" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,885, issued on March 25, was assigned to Plaid Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for maintaining internet anonymity via client fingerprint" was invented by Shawn Bracken (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for altering client fingerprint that includes editing data components of network communication from a client device to a server, which comprises editing network protocol data from the client during negotiation of a cryptographic protocol; selectively enabling access to library components specified in the edited client network protocol data; and sending a client communication to the server using...