ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,280, issued on July 29, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Location-based access to controlled access resources" was invented by Anurag Acharya (Palo Alto, Calif.), Samuel Yuan (San Jose, Calif.) and Alexandre A. Verstak (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide access to location-restricted resources outside of recognized locations. An example, a method includes receiving a request for a controlled access resource from a client device and determining that the request is not associated with a recognized location but that state data exists for the client device identifier. In respo...