ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,215, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Pre-launching an application using interprocess communication" was invented by Joe Boderck (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Satvik Chauhan (Campbell, Calif.) and Rajat Kansal (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a method includes executing a first application as a foreground process of an operating system of a computing device, and displaying, by the first application, content on a display of the computing device, where the content is associated with an action executable by a second application. The method includes transmitting, ...