US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Dec. 16 for "Website security with deceptive responses" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,918, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Website security with deceptive responses" was invented by Steve Bennett (Minneapolis), Timothy James Hruska (Minneapolis), Paul Melson (Minneapolis) and Nupur Mungikar (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A web server system hosts a website, the website server system being configured to receive a request for web content on the website, generate a response containing the web content, and transmit the response with the web content, receive, from a web security system, deceptive response instructions, modify, in response to receiving the deceptive respons...