ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,428, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automated decisioning system for acceptability of user privacy notices and controls on a user interface" was invented by Jeremy Phillips (Mountain View, Calif.) and Rupak Banerjee (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To determine whether a web resource complies with a policy for displaying an informational notice, a system obtaining a Document Object Model (DOM) representation of the web resource, the DOM representation specifying a hierarchy of pages and including instructions for displaying content elements. The system traverses the DOM ...