ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,741, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Entefy Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Location-aware query transformation using weighted temporal models to derive user and region context" was invented by Alston Ghafourifar (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Brienne Ghafourifar (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Mehdi Ghafourifar (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Neil Achtman (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for transforming location-based data queries into temporal domain by leveraging a location-to-time knowledge conversion graph. In some systems which contain diverse sets of data objects, only certain objects may contain exp...