ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,152, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Query modification based on non-textual resource context" was invented by Gokhan H. Bakir (Zurich) and Behshad Behzadi (Freienbach, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, modifying queries based on non-textual content. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a user device, a query including a plurality of terms; determining active non-textual data displayed in an application environment on the user device; determining, from the non-textual textual ...