ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,975, issued on July 14, was assigned to Glance Networks Inc. (Wakefield, Mass.).
"Method and apparatus for securely co-browsing documents and media URLs" was invented by Richard L. Baker (Belmont, Mass.), Andrew Norman (Great Falls, Va.), Brendan Ronan (Watertown, Mass.), Ellis Oliver Jones (Newburyport, Mass.), Edward F. Hardebeck (Brookline, Mass.), Edward J. McGowan (Winchester, Mass.) and Deborah Mendez (Arlington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Secure sharing of a document on a co-browse session is implemented by causing a JavaScript implemented document viewer to create HTML5 description of a rendered view of a document's...