US Patent Issued to Branch Metrics on March 24 for "Techniques for searching using target applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,660, issued on March 24, was assigned to Branch Metrics Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Techniques for searching using target applications" was invented by Sojan Ponthanplavil Razallian (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Eric J. Glover (Palo Alto, Calif.), Alexander Austin (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Kan Yu (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device includes a processing unit that executes a search application. Executing the search application causes the processing unit to receive a user search query, send the user search query to a plurality of target applications, and receive a set of search results from each of the target appli...