ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,831, issued on July 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating action elements suggesting content for ongoing tasks" was invented by Ibrahim Badr (New York), Imran R. Mansuri (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sari Onaissi (Union City, Calif.), InHan Kang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wenqiong Guo (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Anner Kushnir (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system and method that can be used to surface a selectable action element for at least one ongoing task. In particular, the present disclosure provides a general pipeline to identify potential tasks that a user has an ongoing interest in ...