US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Aug. 11 for "Detection of logged-on users based on browser storage data" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,896, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detection of logged-on users based on browser storage data" was invented by Tamir Friedman (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed techniques detect when a browser user remains logged-on to a website. Knowing that a browser user remains logged-on improves posture management in the face of cyberattacks. Visibility of the attack surface improves, and insight on how to reduce attack exposure is obtained. Furthermore, knowledge of when a web browser user was logged-on to a particular website may assist in post-hoc investig...