ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,492, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for application security improvements" was invented by Michael Nitsopoulos (Pittsburgh) and Jerold Xing (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for application security improvements are provided. The systems and methods may receive a banking request, including a request header, from a web browser or mobile application. Thereafter, a session cookie may be extracted from the request header. The session cookie may include one or more of a CSRF token, a MORF token, and a JWT. Thereafter, an ...