ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,195, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Homomorphic encryption for web application firewall processing" was invented by Jose Lejin P J (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for avoiding exposure of data that was entered into a web application in the context of having that data scanned by a third-party web application firewall (WAF). The apparatus receives, in response to forwarding a request to a web application, a response from the web application that includes a web form. The apparatus forwards the response to a browser and in response receives a second request tha...