ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,119, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automated content switching rule for controlling access to interactive content on a computing device" was invented by Victor Carbune (Zurich) and Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated content switching rules may be generated and/or utilized for automatically switching away from certain interactive content during presentation of that interactive content when one or more switch conditions are met. In some instances, automated content switching rules may define one or more non-temporal switch conditions, e.g., based ...