ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,890, issued on March 3, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Automatic cookie consent" was invented by Santanu Chakraborty (Bengaluru, India), Henchinapalya Nagaraj Madhu Sudhan (Bengaluru, India), Prasanna Kulkarni (Bengaluru, India), Kannan Ravichandran (Bengaluru, India) and Nagesh Jatagond (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to a web page of a web site having been loaded, a consent management platform (CMP) used by the web site is identified. That the web page includes a cookie consent portion is detected based on the CMP used by the web site. In response to detecting that the web page includ...