ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,366, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Real-time micro-profile generation using a dynamic tree structure" was invented by Ruxandra Georgiana Davies (Pacific Palisades, Calif.) and Scott Tadashi Davies (Pacific Palisades, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Real-time micro-profile generating using a dynamic tree structure is provided. A system receives a first voice query. The system generates, from historical searches related to the first voice query, a first pivot point in a tree structure for the first voice query having child nodes. The system outputs an audio prompt to request selection of ...