ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,369, issued on April 21, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Combining parameters of multiple search queries that share a line of inquiry" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Victor Carbune (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer readable media related to generating a combined search query based on search parameters of a current search query of a user and search parameters of one or more previously submitted search quer(ies) of the user that are determined to be of the same line of inquiry as the current search query. Two or more search queries may be determined...