ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,148, issued on May 13, was assigned to Solana Mobile Inc. (San Francisco).

"Private session for mobile application" was invented by Jonas Hinn (Evanston, Ill.) and Gary Anderson (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device can receive input to execute a target application in a private session. The target application is a native application for a mobile platform of the mobile device. The private session is a native function of the mobile device configured to isolate data of the target application. In response to the input, the mobile device can configure a local resource of the mobile device to support the target ...