ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,002, issued on July 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Indexing access limited native applications" was invented by Pranay Gupta (San Francisco) and Chirag Shah (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for determining that a native application limits access to the native application using account credential requirements, the native application generating an application environment for display on a user device within the native application and operating independent of a browser application that can operate on the user device; obtaining a set of account credentials for indexing...