ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,535, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Enforcing compliance with data use policies" was invented by Ashok Lalchand Chandwaney (Seattle), Cindy Zhou (New York) and Branden Michael Archer (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document discloses aspects of enforcing compliance of data use policies. In aspects, a network function receives, from an application, a message that includes data to upload from a device. In response, the network function executes a compliance function associated with a type of the data in the message. The compliance function can assert a data use polic...