US Patent Issued to Target Brands on April 14 for "Security system for detecting malicious actor's observation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,918, issued on April 14, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Security system for detecting malicious actor's observation" was invented by Paul Melson (Minneapolis), Chris Carlson (Minneapolis), Eric Brandel (Minneapolis) and Caleb Walch (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A website vulnerability test is performed by automatically checking that a website has not been compromised by malicious third party scripts. A system can test a dynamic behavior of a website that indicates a functional user flow through the website. A set of rules are applied against a log of dynamic behavior of the website, as well as stati...