US Patent Issued to Ancestry.com Operations on Sept. 1 for "Search-result explanation systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,769, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (Draper, Utah).

"Search-result explanation systems and methods" was invented by Gann Bierner (Oakland, Calif.), Robert Weis (Oakland, Calif.), Kevan Craig McGowan (Oakland, Calif.) and Joel Edward Hobson (Daly City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Search-result explanation systems, methods, and computer-program products receive a user search query, expand the search query into a plurality of sub-queries, perform a database search using the expanded user search query, and determine which sub-queries of the plurality of sub-queries matched with a particular sear...