ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,722, issued on April 7, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Efficient storage, retrieval, and/or rendering of personal entries" was invented by Peter Krogh (Nevada City, Calif.), Shikha Kapoor (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shen-En Shih (Mountain View, Calif.) and Max Loh (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generation and/or utilization of particular data structure(s) in more efficiently storing, retrieving, and/or presenting personal entry(s) is described herein. Implementations can utilize the data structure(s) in more efficiently responding to a vague user request that specifies a particular type of person...