ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,903, issued on Aug. 26.

"Graphical user interface for alert configuration" was invented by Nicholas J. Filippi (Atherton, Calif.), Siegfried Puchbauer-Schnabel (San Francisco), Carl Sterling Yestrau (San Francisco), Vivian Shen (San Francisco) and J. Mathew Elting (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that enables a user to configure alert actions based on search results generated by a query is disclosed. During operation, the system presents an alert user interface (UI) to a user, wherein the alert UI enables the user to configure one or more alert actions to be performed based on the search results. Next, the syste...