US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on March 24 for "Data masking" (Israeli, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,528, issued on March 24, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data masking" was invented by Ofer Ben-Noon (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ohad Bobrov (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Omri Bushari (Wolfenbuttel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling access to a digital resource of a group of digital resources, the method comprising: receiving a request from a user via a computer browser for access to a digital resource of a group of digital resources; determining if the user has authorization to access a first portion of the resource but not a second portion of the resource; and configuring the browser t...