US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on May 13 for "Search result ranking and presentation" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,986, issued on May 13, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Search result ranking and presentation" was invented by Chen Zhou (Shanghai), Chen Ding (Beijing), David Francois Huynh (San Francisco), JinYu Lou (Shanghi, China), Yanlai Huang (Shanghai), Hongda Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Guanghua Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yiming Li (Gainesville, Fla.) and Yangyang Chai (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for ranking search results and generating a presentation. In some implementations, a search system generates a presentation based on a search query. In some implementations, a search sy...