US Patent Issued to Perplexity AI on Sept. 8 for "Augmented search engine" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,849, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Perplexity AI Inc. (San Francisco).

"Augmented search engine" was invented by Johnny Ho (New York), Kevin Hu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nick Jalbert (Berkeley, Calif.), Henry Modisett (Vancouver, Canada), Aravind Srinivas (San Francisco), Nikhil Thota (San Francisco), Alexandr Yarats (Minneapolis) and Denis Yarats (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented search engine is provided. The augmented search engine receives an initial query for a search from a user. The augmented search engine determines a next search phase using a search state database. When the next search phase includes...