US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Sept. 22 for "Operating system-level assistive features for contextual privacy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,490, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Operating system-level assistive features for contextual privacy" was invented by Marco Zamarato (San Francisco), Kara Gates (Mountain View, Calif.), Sameer Bansal (San Francisco), Chrisoula Kapelonis (Mountain View, Calif.) and Evan Malahy (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described that include operations such as detecting a plurality of computing devices configured as a distributed ambient computing system, receiving a request to execute a computing task, obtaining, from the distributed ambient computing system, d...