ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,870, issued on March 24, was assigned to Brave Software Inc. (San Francisco).

"Reader mode-optimized attention application" was invented by Benjamin Livshits (London), Peter Snyder (San Francisco) and Andrius Aucinas (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attention application, such as a web browser, includes a pipeline optimized for faster, more secure, and more private, viewing of hypermedia documents using a reader mode. The reader mode is "always on" in the sense that a classifier runs on every web page and every compatible page is rendered in the reader mode and not rendered in full, referred to as the bloat page. Significan...