ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,045, issued on July 28, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Adaptive ranking of navigation suggestions" was invented by Mohamad Hasan Ahmadi (Santa Monica, Calif.), Jun Zou (Bothell, Wash.), Angela Alison Yoeurng (Pasadena, Calif.), Justin Gabriel Donnelly (Westlake Village, Calif.), Tommy Chendong Li (Santa Monica, Calif.), Tarun Bansal (Seattle), Manuk Armen Hovanesian (Glendale, Calif.), Michael Blair Crouse (Seattle), Sophie Chang (Seattle), Yana Yushkina (Seattle) and Jesse Hong Lee (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for providing autocomplete suggestions for a navigation text bo...