ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,744, issued on April 7, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multimodal search on wearable smart devices" was invented by Bhanu Prakash Reddy Guda (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dia Kharrat (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anna Galusza (Seattle), Vikas Bahirwani (San Francisco), Lin Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sarah Padlipsky (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nishtha Bhatia (Fremont, Calif.), Zeina Oweis (San Francisco), Yoshida Grant (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alex Olwal (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Saeed Najafi (Toronto), Johnny Lee (Redmond, Wash.), Xavier Benavides Palos (Beverly Hills, Calif.), Ran Xin (Mountain View, Calif.), Achin Kulshrestha (Toronto) and Nikolai Moukhine (Waterloo, Canada).

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