US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on April 7 for "Insights service for search engine utilization" (Israeli, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,759, issued on April 7, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Insights service for search engine utilization" was invented by Michael Tholfsen (Newcastle, Wash.), Paul Ronald Ray (Kirkland, Wash.), Elad Graiver (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Yonatan Turkin (Givatayim, Israel), Jonathan Thomas Grudin (Issaquah, Wash.) and Sadiq Dhafir Alkhalili (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a search service includes observing, on a per-user basis with respect to each user in a group of users, usage of features of a search engine over a period of in association with search queries submitted t...