ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,750, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Predictive generation of search suggestions" was invented by Michal Grabowski (San Francisco), Amanda M. Moore (San Francisco), Alireza Ali (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jocelyn Lin (Mountain View, Calif.) and Evan H. Parker (Atherton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating search suggestions includes receiving an indication of a current location of the user device. After a user accesses a search function on the user device and before the user submits a search request, the method includes determining search results associated with locations in p...