ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,445, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Query completion based on location" was invented by Hussein Mohamed Mehanna (Redmond, Wash.), Tabreez Govani (Bellevue, Wash.), Jun Wang (Bellvue, Wash.) and Kun Jing (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that return query completions are provided. A user of a computing device like a mobile phone may enter a prefix. In turn, the prefix and location information associated with the device are transmitted to a server device. The server devi...