ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,468, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating and selecting local content to improve security and utilization of network resources" was invented by Matthew Nirvan Sharifi (Mountain View, Calif.) and David Petrou (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one aspect of the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of generating on-device content items to improve security and network utilization. A client device can access content resources and category information from a data structure in the memory the memory of the client device. The cl...