ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,568, issued on March 4, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method(s) and system(s) for utilizing an independent server to facilitate secure exchange of data" was invented by Akshay Goel (Seattle), Jonathan Eccles (San Francisco), Nitin Khandelwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sarvjeet Singh (Palo Alto, Calif.), David Sanchez (Burlingame, Calif.) and Ashwin Ram (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein utilize an independent server for facilitating secure exchange of data between multiple disparate parties. The independent server receives client data, via an automated assistant applica...