ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,409, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method and system for executing applications using native code modules" was invented by Evangelos Kokkevis (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew Papakipos (Palo Alto, Calif.) and David C. Sehr (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a system that executes a web application. During operation, the system loads the web application in a web browser and loads a native code module associated with the web application into a secure runtime environment. Next, the system provides input data associated with the web application to the nat...