ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,601, issued on May 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for managing operational aspects of a web browser relative to user privacy considerations" was invented by Jessie L. Berlin (San Jose, Calif.), Aram D. Kudurshian (San Francisco), Charles D. Deets (Capitola, Calif.), Charles H. Ying (San Mateo, Calif.), Marcel Van Os (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Marco Triverio (San Francisco), Samantha Liu (San Diego), Steven J. Falkenburg (Los Altos, Calif.) and Wenson Hsieh (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments set forth techniques for managing operational aspects of a web browser application rel...