US Patent Issued to PayPal on Aug. 25 for "User authentication using a browser cookie shared between a browser and an application" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,223, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"User authentication using a browser cookie shared between a browser and an application" was invented by Poornima Venkatakrishnan (San Jose, Calif.), Jeffrey Edward Harrell (San Jose, Calif.) and Teddy Vincent Toms (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and/or method may be provided to authenticate a user. An example method of authenticating a user includes receiving, by a merchant application, a user request to complete a transaction using a payment service provider. The method also includes in response to receiving the user request to complet...