ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,400, issued on June 3, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method of and system for conducting personalized federated search and presentation of results therefrom" was invented by Rakesh Barve (Bangalore, India), Pankaj Garg (Patiala, India), Sashikumar Venkataraman (Andover, Mass.), Murali Aravamudan (Andover, Mass.), Keyur Vallabhbhai Faldu (Bangalore, India), Vineet Agarwal (Andover, Mass.) and Apurv Anand (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides user-interface methods and systems for submitting search requests to search engines and presenting search results therefrom custo...