ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,876, issued on July 7, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Request header anomaly detection" was invented by Duane E Weldon (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are disclosed for detecting an unacceptable HTTP requests by scanning the headers of the HTTP requests. A method includes receiving at least one incoming HTTP request header from a browser of a client, based on the header comparing a type of the browser of the client with a browser, determining that the type of the browser of the client does not correspond to the browser associated with the quality value, d...