US Patent Issued on May 6 for "Internet search results annotation, filtering, and advertising with respect to search term elements" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,942, issued on May 6.

"Internet search results annotation, filtering, and advertising with respect to search term elements" was invented by Robert Osann Jr. (Port Angeles, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes are directed to: annotating Internet search results to indicate missing search term elements on referenced and descendant webpages; optionally filtering out search results referencing webpages with missing terms; and showing advertisements co-visible with annotated search results. When shown, annotations warn the user to avoid clicking on an Internet search result where the user's search term elements are n...