ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,355, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (Lehi, Utah).
"Unified search systems and methods" was invented by Gann Bierner (Oakland, Calif.) and Robert Weis (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A genealogy online system may cause to display, at a graphical user interface associated with a genealogy online system, a search box, the genealogy online system configured to provide functions comprising family-tree building and historical record search. The genealogy online system may receive a query from a user entered at the search box. The genealogy online system may use a machine learning language mode...