ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,784, issued on March 3, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Predictive query completion and predictive search results" was invented by Othar Hansson (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David Black (Mountain View, Calif.), Jon M. Wiley (Mountain View, Calif.), Manas Tungare (Mountain View, Calif.), Ziga Mahkovec (San Francisco), Benjamin J. McMahan (San Jose, Calif.), Benedict A. Gomes (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jonathan J. Effrat (Mountain View, Calif.), Johanna R. Wright (Mountain View, Calif.) and Marcin K. Wichary (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for pr...