ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,419, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and methods for providing a live query response session" was invented by Harshit Kharbanda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Christopher James Kelley (Orinda, Calif.), Kai Yu (San Francisco), Christophe Patrice Fondacci (Daly City, Calif.), Swaminathan Pichumani (San Jose, Calif.), Wewage Anuda Nethum Dep Weerasinghe (San Francisco), Jing Cao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Hsiang-Yu Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system for providing a live query response session for responding to multimodal input queries. A computing system initi...