US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Oct. 20 for "Search result annotations" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,743, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Search result annotations" was invented by Denise Ho (Los Altos, Calif.), Grzegorz Glowaty (Kilchberg, Switzerland), Reed Taylor (Pittsburgh), Tom Murphy (Pittsburgh) and Juro Gottweis (Adliswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible annotation framework normalizes auxiliary information from diverse sources, ranks the information for an individual search result, and provides a lightweight or full display of the auxiliary information in an annotation for the search result. An annotation thus displays information not typically part of the detai...