ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,719, issued on April 7, was assigned to AMADEUS S.A.S. (Biot, France).

"Search request processing" was invented by Xavier Vellay (Biot, France), Yannick Devaux (Biot, France) and Mickael Coat (Biot, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search engine receives a search request and determines a number of initial search results. The initial search results comprise at least one essential data piece and omit at least one non-essential data piece. Later on, a follow-up search request from the client is received which indicates at least one of the initial search results. The search engine computes at least one non-essential data piece for...