ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,603, issued on May 19, was assigned to NAVER CLOUD Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method and system for detecting forgery of mobile application by using user identifier and signature collection" was invented by MunSoo Kwak (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Byeong Jae Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Ae Ji Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Won Bin Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client transmits signature information for an application and a user's identifier (for example, user ID) to a server, and the server allows an application operator to decide whether to allow or block application authentication acco...