ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,763, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to BYTEDANCE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for implementing a search index generator" was invented by Jiaqi Guo (Chicago), Sri Subramanian (Cupertino, Calif.) and Ram Gopalan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides examples of methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products for implementing a search indexer. One example method includes receiving, by index workflow circuitry, a search index update indicator, causing, by the index workflow circuitry and in response to receiving the search index update indicator, index generation circuitry ...