ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,626, issued on March 31, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Search string enhancement" was invented by Sophie D. Green (Andover, Great Britain), Stephen R.F. Head (Chandler's Ford, Great Britain), Katherine Elizabeth Speight (Eastleigh, Great Britain) and Robert William John Parker (Romsey, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is used for determining an enhancement for a search string. The method includes, responsive to receiving an input search string comprising one or more search terms at an input field: identifying a type of each of the one or more search t...