ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,709, issued on May 12, was assigned to SHAPE SECURITY INC. (Seattle).

"Detecting compromised web pages in a runtime environment" was invented by Wesley Hales (Atlanta) and Jarrod Overson (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for detecting compromised web pages in a runtime environment. A first version of a web page is retrieved and loaded in a browser comprising a browser extension configured to detect event listeners added when web pages are loaded by the browser. First data is generated describing a first set of event listeners detected by the browser extension when the first version of the web ...