US Patent Issued to Shutterstock on Aug. 11 for "Language agnostic architecture for a search engine" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,666, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Shutterstock Inc. (New York).

"Language agnostic architecture for a search engine" was invented by Patrick Nicholson (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data structure to facilitate language agnostic searches in an online marketplace is provided. The data structure includes multiple nodes, each node having one or more labels associated to a network resource; and multiple links joining a parent node to a child node. A first label is associated with one or more words in a first language, the link indicates a navigation route for a search engine to move from the parent node to the child node ...