ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,199, issued on June 16, was assigned to AMADEUS S.A.S. (Biot, France).

"Processing search requests" was invented by Philippe Gentric (La Colle-sur-Loup, France), Julien Bianchi (Nice, France), Cyrille Cormier (Villeparisis, France) and Nagesh Subramanya Kartheek (Bengalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the processing of search results in a distributed computing system, especially at a user terminal. A user terminal comprises a memory storing a probabilistic model to determine validities of search results being outdated after passed time and storing rules to re-compute the search results. The ...