ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,631, issued on July 21, was assigned to AGARI DATA INC. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Using message context to evaluate security of requested data" was invented by Bjorn Markus Jakobsson (Portola Valley, Calif.), Scot Free Kennedy (San Francisco) and Patrick Richard Peterson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information of an electronic message to be delivered to an intended recipient is received. For an original resource identifier included in the electronic message, a corresponding alternative resource identifier that can be at least in part used to obtain the original resource identifier and obtain context information associat...