ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,647, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Instant detection of a homoglyph attack when reviewing code in an augmented reality display" was invented by Su Liu (Austin, Texas), Boyi Tzen (Taipei, Taiwan), Fan Yang (Beijing) and Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla (Visakhapatnam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for detection of a homoglyph attack in code reviewed in an augmented reality display. A determination is made whether a line of code of source code includes a non-coding script character in a non-coding script that is a ho...