MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641050562 A) filed by Easwari Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on April 21, for 'app privacy scout: a browser based privacy protection tool.'
Inventor(s) include Lakshmi Vignesh S; Sachin K; and Dr. V. Balaji.
The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The rapid growth of mobile and web applications has increased privacy and security risks, as users often grant excessive permissions and accept complex policies without understanding them. Existing tools rely on server-side analysis, lack transparency, and fail to address modern brows...