ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,017, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SWOOP IP HOLDINGS LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Secure browser control using simple mail transfer protocol" was invented by James Kassemi (Albuquerque, N.M.), John P. Killoran Jr. (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Chad Person (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An e-commerce system and method for facilitating transactions between a customer and a vendor is disclosed. The e-commerce system includes a receiver configured to receive a request for at least one token, the request including the details of at least one transaction for the purchase of at least one product, a processor configured to genera...