ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,394, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Future use intents for saved resources in a browser environment" was invented by Manini Roy (Seattle), Nasim Sedaghat (Montreal), Aina Rubies Espinalt (San Francisco) and Filip Jerzy Gorski (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations may suggest and provide the ability to add future use intents for a saved resource. Future use intents can be used for organization and proactive actions for the resource. An example method includes determining a type of future use intent applies to a content item and providing an intent control for the co...