ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,515, issued on June 30, was assigned to Hangzhou Alibaba International Internet Industry Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou City, China).

"Method and electronic device for providing commodity object search information" was invented by Kezheng Liao (Hangzhou, China) and Zhenfang Wu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising determining a plurality of commodity objects meeting a search intent according to a commodity object search request submitted by a user; analyzing the plurality of commodity objects to obtain a plurality of commodity object combinations, and generating text content in units of commodity object combinations...