ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,205, issued on April 7, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Browser-based detection of data exfiltration" was invented by Conor Hayes (Monte Sereno, Calif.), Ying Xie (Cupertino, Calif.), Vimalkumar Jeyakumar (Los Altos, Calif.), Theron Tock (Mountain View, Calif.), Harish Kumar Bharat Singh (Pleasanton, Calif.), Vikram Kapoor (Saratoga, Calif.), Weifei Zeng (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Browser-based detection of data exfiltration includes gathering first information describing browser activity of a browser of a device and generated by a browser extension on the ...