US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on June 2 for "Privacy-preserving location attestation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,429, issued on June 2, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Privacy-preserving location attestation" was invented by Alex Jacobson (Mountain View, Calif.), Nicholas Sabatino (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sudhi Herle (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions that implement an application programming interface (API). When invoked by a software entity executing on a computing device, the API is configured to receive, from the application, an indication of a geographic location (304); obtain, from an operating system of the computing device, an indicat...