US Patent Issued to Shopify on Dec. 30 for "Method and system for protecting a checkout transaction from malicious code injection" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,188, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Method and system for protecting a checkout transaction from malicious code injection" was invented by Jack McCracken (Ottawa), Peter Yaworski (Aurora, Canada) and Zachary Deveau (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for detecting malicious code injection into checkout operations, the method including receiving a report regarding a checkout operation; determining based on the report that a checkout operation includes one or more events satisfying a first criterion; determining that a modification of customizable software code related to t...