ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,756, issued on April 7, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Personalized related queries for search segments" was invented by Marcelo De Barros (Redmond, Wash.), Prithvishankar Srinivasan (Seattle), Aman Singhal (Bellevue, Wash.) and Manish Mittal (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms to personalize quick answers to a user are described. A query history is assembled from queries previously submitted by users. Each entry in the query history comprises a query, an associated quick answer, and the userID associated with the user that submitted the query. A query database is created b...