ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,730, issued on March 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to evaluate client device trust in a distributed computing system" was invented by John Draper (San Francisco), Colin Whittaker (Newton, Mass.), Haidong Shao (Foster City, Calif.), David Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Adrian Isles (Oakland, Calif.) and Maxim Kovalkov (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a processing device of a content sharing platform, a request for desired content from a client device, the content being stored in a content delivery network (CDN). The method further includes generat...