US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 25 for "State-dependent query response" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,858, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"State-dependent query response" was invented by John Nicholas Jitkoff (Palo Alto, Calif.), Michael J. Lebeau (New York), William J. Byrne (Davis, Calif.) and David P. Singleton (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for receiving user input that defines a search query, and providing the search query to a server system. Information that a search engine system determined was responsive to the search query is received at a computing de...