ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,247, issued on March 17, was assigned to NASDAQ INC. (New York).

"Client device information for controlling access to web applications" was invented by Anis A. Khwaja (Huntington, N.Y.), Dimitry Fayerman (Acton, Mass.) and Vladimir Mitevski (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology provides for plural application processes including at least one application in a browser to reliably acquire device information that can be used by other processes to accurately determine whether the plural applications are running on the same client device and/or are associated with aspects of the same client device. The more rel...