ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,627, issued on March 31, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Enhanced auto-suggestion functionality" was invented by Manish Gupta (Hyderabad, India), Puneet Agrawal (Jaipur, India), Biju Venugopal (Hyderabad, India), Sushil Kumar Chordia (Hyderabad, India), Anand Raman (Gachibowli, India) and Shveta Verma (Delhi, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing enhanced search functionality is provided. A system may receive a prefix from a user device and identify that a user's intent is to do an exploratory query. The system may further identify a topic based on the prefix and generate o...