US Patent Issued to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES on Dec. 2 for "Advanced data collection using browser extension application for internet security" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,350, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Advanced data collection using browser extension application for internet security" was invented by Austin Walters (Savoy, Ill.), Vincent Pham (Champaign, Ill.), Jeremy Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.) and Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A browser extension application is configured to collect data relating to the user's browsing activity and display notifications on a user interface. A user can instruct a web browsing application to navigate to a website. The browser extension application can detect a type of the webpage, ...