ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,624, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Indicating personal data in an HTTP message" was invented by Maurizio Pighetti (Genoa, Italy), Federico Pasini (Genoa, Italy) and Francesca Bruzzone (Cogoleto, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network, a transmitter, a receiver, a method, a computer program and a computer program product for providing an indication of personal data in an HTTP message including a body is disclosed. The network includes the transmitter and the receiver. The network appends a header field to the HTTP message by the transmitter, wherein the appended header ...