ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,417, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Transferring actions from a shared device to a personal device associated with an account of a user" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Victor Carbune (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to transferring actions from a shared device to a personal device that is associated with an account of a user. Some implementations relate to determining that a request is associated with sensitive information, determining that one or more other users are co-present with the shared device, and transferring the request that...