ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,376, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Okta Inc. (San Francisco).

"Personalized search based on account attributes" was invented by Rajhans Samdani (Belmont, Calif.), Ankit Goyal (Daly City, Calif.), Pierre Rappolt (San Francisco), Emily Yidan Wang (San Francisco), Pratyus Patnaik (Los Altos, Calif.), William S. Potter (San Francisco) and Suchit Agarwal (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system stores resources such as text articles, videos, and so forth for an organization. During operation, the system receives a query and provides a response. During initial use of the system, there is little or no historical data ...