ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,468, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Supertab AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).
"Method, system, program, and medium for access to paywalled site without user tracking" was invented by Cosmin-Gabriel Ene (Zollikon, Switzerland) and Jesse Knight (Scarborough, Maine).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided to prevent user tracking of a user device by an operator associated with a paywalled content site by a) receiving, at an intermediary site a request for a URL associate with a paywalled content site, b) forwarding the URL to a virtual machine; c) requesting, by the virtual machine, paywalled content us...