US Patent Issued to Gen Digital on March 17 for "Systems and methods for dynamically disabling third-party web browser extensions during online browsing sessions" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,314, issued on March 17, was assigned to Gen Digital Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for dynamically disabling third-party web browser extensions during online browsing sessions" was invented by Venkadesan Marimuthu (Chennai, India) and SriHarsha Angara (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for dynamically disabling third-party web browser extensions during online browsing sessions may include (i) detecting initiation of a target online browsing session including one or more websites, (ii) determining browser extensions associated with the websites, and (iii) performing a security ac...