US Patent Issued to Bank of America on March 31 for "Browser extension for validating communications" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,918, issued on March 31, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Browser extension for validating communications" was invented by Andrew Paul Montgomery (London), Sanjay Bhanu (Camberley, Great Britain), Stuart David Ford (Slapton, Great Britain) and Ricardo Varanda (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device comprising a secure browser extension for a web browser monitors for satisfaction of one or more operating conditions to identify whether one or more unauthorized applications are intercepting web browser communications. Based on satisfaction of at least one operating condition, t...