Recently, users found that Google filed a new trademark to the USPTO (US Patent and Trademark Office) application entitled "Pigweed". According to the application content point of view, Pigweed trademark will cover "computer operating software."
However, the application did not disclose other details. Foreign media 9to5google this name, for Pigweed conducted some research.
They found the first recorded mention of the fact Pigweed can be found from Fuchsia code. Before being captured and switch to "fuchsia", from the beginning of November, the proposed changes to the code directly references "Pigweed".
But beyond that, there is no conclusive evidence that Pigweed and Fuchsia projects directly related.
On the second and last reference Pigweed of Chromium in the code repository. Specifically, it is found in the "Monorail" (Chrome and other Google projects use issue tracker) related code.
From here you can infer, Pigweed has its own separate instance of the Monorail bug tracking program and the Gerrit code review. Unfortunately, at present the two products are no longer public.
Pigweed of a handful of evidence in the Google decided to make public more information about it before, then it may be difficult to know what, not even Google can not guess when it will be announced. After all, based on past operating Google's point of view, "Android" name is a trademark in 2007, five days before the first release of the operating system registration. In contrast, "Chromebook" the term until 2011 after the first few months of registration listed Chromebook. The "Fuchsia" This name is already registered more than two years, but has not been officially released.