ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,944, issued on June 23, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for decentralized detection of software platforms operating on website pages" was invented by Dallas Duncan (Austin, Texas), William Henderson (Austin, Texas), Laura Robertson (Austin, Texas) and Kace Layton (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include: providing a browser extension to user devices that is configured to: monitor data associated with website pages visited by the user devices; and in response to detecting that data associated with a website page is indicative of a presence of a platform, transmit a...