ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,018, issued on May 12, was assigned to CYACOMB Ltd. (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
"Data transmission" was invented by Bruce Ramsay (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Ian Stevenson (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and computer system for submitting and receiving data relating to a first digital content element. A search query comprising at least a portion of a first digital content element is derived at a first entity, the search query being based on a first number of possible search results in a set of search results. The search query is transmitted to a second entity which comprises a content database, the ...