ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,736, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Passive-enabled applications for a computing device" was invented by Charmaine D'Silva (Mountain View, Calif.), Paul Nicholas Gennai (San Francisco), Andrew Devron Stadler (San Francisco) and Ritesh Reddy (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor of a computing device is described that receives user input to disable an application and determines whether the application is passive-enabled. Responsive to determining that the application is passive-enabled, the computing device causes the application to operate in a passive state. While ...