ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,473, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Presenting suggestions from search corpora" was invented by Alastair Tse (Killara, Australia) and John Nicholas Jitkoff (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented user interface method including displaying on a touchscreen display a representation of a keyboard defining a top edge and a bottom edge, and a content area adjacent to the keyboard. The method further includes receiving a user dragging input having motion directed to the bottom edge of...