ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,685, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Plugin authorization workflow for web applications" was invented by Tarun Garg (New Delhi) and Abhishek Das (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plugin authorization workflow for web applications is described. A plugin makes a request for an authorization token. An authorization provider module receives the request and displays a user interface (UI) to receive an input for approving execution of the plugin. A target authorization system receives the approval and generates an authorization code which is communicated to the authorization provider module...