ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,191, issued on April 7, was assigned to Lendingclub Bank, National Association (San Francisco).

"Secure content management through authentication" was invented by Hyunsuk Han (San Ramon, Calif.) and Mahesh Acharya (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for performing authentication, and also "eager" or "lazy" fetch of data, for restricted webpages based on the restricted webpages being associated with an authentication tier in an AASD registry. Inclusion of a restricted webpage in the AASD registry enables AASD-based authentication for the webpage. According to embodiments, information f...