ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,000, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Efficient and latency reducing task distribution using trusted execution environments" was invented by Akhil Dhavala (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shruti Murali (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hari Krishna Bikmal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Michael Feng (San Mateo, Calif.), Oscar Ka Ho Chow (Richmond Hill, Canada), Ouyang Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jacob Mark Hallberg (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products for selecting and displaying content in privacy preserving manners are describe...