ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,461, issued on May 19, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Application prediction based on a visual search determination" was invented by Golden Gopal Krishna (Albany, Calif.), Shadia Walsh (San Francisco), Rosemary Margaret La Prairie (London), Carsten Hinz (Mountain View, Calif.), Simon Edward Roberts (Brighton and Hove, Great Britain), Sarah Fay Smith (San Francisco), Stacy Lou Chiou (Los Angeles), Zhipeng Pan (San Mateo, Calif.) and Clement Dickinson Wright (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Visual search in an operating system of a computing device can process and provide additional information on the co...