ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,537, issued on July 7, was assigned to Home Depot Product Authority LLC (Atlanta).

"System and methods for search engine parameter tuning using genetic algorithm" was invented by Jared Moore (Atlanta), Rongkai Zhao (Kildeer, Ill.), Ravi Sambhu (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Naveen Krishna (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a search engine may include determining a multi-dimensional search parameter space comprising a set of possible weight values for each of a plurality of search parameters and dividing the search parameter space into a grid of evenly-spaced values that is a subset of the set of possible values. The...