ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,786, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Matching search queries to application content" was invented by Thomas McColgan (Dietikon, Switzerland), Ana-Cristina Rogoz (Zurich), Krishna Kanth Tatavarthi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vijay Thadkal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Niraj Kumar (Milpitas, Calif.), Wuyuan Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Deepak Lukose (Lubbock, Texas), Alexander Steven Flick (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Timothy John Cherry (Mountain View, Calif.), Jeffrey R. Cooper (Mountain View, Calif.) and Barbara Lugar (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology generally relates to providing search results that inc...