ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,830, issued on June 2, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Protecting confidential information in online applications" was invented by Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada), David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada), Walter Theodore Hulick Jr. (Pearland, Texas), Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.) and Carlos M. Pignataro (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device obtains transaction data regarding a transaction attempted by a client of an online application to access confidential information within the online application. The transaction data is captured by instrumentation code inserted...