ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,840, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Pinterest Inc. (San Francisco).
"Dynamic search input selection" was invented by Kelei Xu (Mountain View, Calif.), Naveen Gavini (San Francisco), Yushi Jing (San Francisco), Andrew Huan Zhai (San Mateo, Calif.) and Dmitry Olegovich Kislyuk (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system and method for enabling dynamic selection of a search input. For example, rather than having a static search input box, the search input may be dynamically positioned such that it encompasses a portion of displayed information. An image segment that includes a representation of the encomp...