ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,734, issued on May 26, was assigned to BRANDSHIELD LTD. (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

"System, device, and method of protected electronic commerce and electronic financial transactions" was invented by Yoav Keren (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, device, and method of protected electronic commerce and electronic financial transactions. A method includes: analyzing (i) content of an online destination that sells an asset to an end-user, and (ii) data about ownership in the online destination, and (iii) meta-data about that content; and determining that an offering to sell that asset to the end-user is fraudulen...