ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,588, issued on March 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Selection of ranked configurations" was invented by Pankaj Risbood (Bangalore, India), Parag Kacharulal Sarda (Bangalore, India), Rahul S. Kulkarni (Maharashtra, India), Rohit Jain (Rajasthan, India), Vittaldas Sachin Shenoy (Calicut, India) and Vivek Sahasranaman (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selection of ranked configurations. In one aspect, a method includes providing a plurality of class definitions for selection, each class definitio...