ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,767, issued on May 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Processing of requests to control information stored at multiple servers" was invented by Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.), Rock Yuen-Wong (San Francisco), Arpana Hosabettu (San Jose, Calif.) and Marcel M. Moti Yung (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting/processing requests to control information stored at multiple content platforms/servers. In one aspect, a client device can send a request to verify the device's trustworthiness to a device trustwor...