ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,260, issued on June 9, was assigned to Lithic Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for automatically securing and validating multi-server electronic communications over a plurality of networks" was invented by Jason Kruse (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Boling Jiang (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Andrew Roth (Scarsdale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting, by a privacy component, to a first server, a privacy communication request consisting of device data and server data associated with a second server, receiving, by the privacy component, from the first server, a privacy communication string tagged to the s...