US Patent Issued to WALGREEN on Dec. 2 for "Online authentication and security management using device-based identification" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,082, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to WALGREEN Co. (Deerfield, Ill.).

"Online authentication and security management using device-based identification" was invented by Peter Manwiller (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed to provide enhanced online security. When user authenticating information is provided to access secure content, a network server identifies the user via a website identifier. Some of the disclosed techniques leverage third party "cookie stitchers" to associate user data, which may include a website identifier, to the user's computing devices. If the cookie stitcher cannot identify a curren...