ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,336, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to VIM Inc. (San Francisco).

"Validating a user session" was invented by Asaf David (Tel Aviv, Israel), Nicolas Mendzylewski (Tel Aviv, Israel), Moran Shemesh (Tel Aviv, Israel), Chen Rozenes (Tel Aviv, Israel), Daniel Hallel Jakobsen (Givatayim, Israel) and Nandy Vaisman (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and apparatus comprising: determining that a login session enabled a first client device to log into a first software system, whereby establishing a user session; automatically verifying the user session to ensure that the user session is authentic, by: establish...