ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,980, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Accelerating in-browser tasks of an unprivileged web application" was invented by Soeren Balko (Brookfield, Australia) and Brock Andrew Kenzler (Red Hill, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device establishes a communications channel between a first web application executing within a first browsing context that is not cross-origin isolated and a second web application executing within a second browsing context that is cross-origin isolated. This includes loading a proxy page within a third browsing context of the web browser, the loadi...