ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,719, issued on March 24, was assigned to Equals 3 Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Commenting on a search result" was invented by Daniel Mallin (Minneapolis), Scott Litman (Minneapolis), Marcello Dispensa (Cranford, N.J.) and Steven James Frederickson (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for linking to a search result. A computing system receives a query and provides, to a first computing device, multiple results that are responsive to the query. The computing system provides, to the first computing device, information th...