ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,332, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Application hosting in a distributed application execution system" was invented by Kenneth Ashcraft (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jon P. McAlister (Millbrae, Calif.), Kevin A. Gibbs (San Francisco) and Ryan C. Barrett (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an application execution system having a plurality of application servers, each application server stores a plurality of applications, and has computational resources for executing applications in response to received requests. Each application server also includes instructions for loading a respectiv...