Google was ordered to pay $20 million to two developers after a jury ruled that Google had infringed on three patents. The owners of these patents are Alfonso J. Cioffi and the family of Allen Rozman, who died in 2012, who filed the patent infringement lawsuit. The two argued that Google broke four patents when it put together Chrome’s sandbox feature, which takes suspicious web content and executes it in a separate web browser process, in an enclosed and safe environment, to protect crucial browser files. Google won a first ruling in the case in 2013, but lost the appeal at the Federal Circuit in 2015.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/chromes-sandbox-feature-infringes-on-three-patents-so-google-must-now-pay-20m/