ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,684, issued on June 2, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automated keyword generation based on similarity score" was invented by Abhinav Khandelwal (Karnataka, India), Aravindan Raghuveer (Bangalore, India), Snehal Sunilkumar Motarwar (Karnataka, India) and Rishi Saket (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computing systems, and technology for generating keywords using machine-learned techniques. The system can receive, from a user device, a first keyword associated with a content item of a first content provider. Additionally, the system can access from a keyword database, a plurality of keyword...