ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,892, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Selecting and serving a content item based on device state data of a device" was invented by Hareesh Nagarajan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Surojit Chatterjee (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by one or more processors of at least one server and via a connection between the at least one server and a client device, a request for a content item to be presented at the client device, receiving, by the one or more processors, data indicative of a network speed of the client device at which the content item is to be presented,...