ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,556, issued on April 7, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for automatically synchronizing responses to conditions on devices" was invented by Jeffrey Brown (Mountain View, Calif.), Kristopher Giesing (Palo Alto, Calif.), Steffen Meschkat (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Alhaad Gokhale (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided that permits different devices with different applications to respond to the occurrence of a condition in a similar manner. By way of example, trigger data may be synchronized across multiple devices, wherein trigger data identifies informatio...