ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,927, issued on July 22, was assigned to Adeia Media Solutions Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods and techniques for adaptive search" was invented by Shelly Glennon (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Beach (Bloomington, Ind.), James Cheng (Fremont, Calif.), Richard Lee (San Francisco), Kimberly Paluch (Sandy, Utah), Robert Poniatowski (San Jose, Calif.) and Margret Schmidt (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided for a prefix-based search system. The system stores a first data structure for a prefix. The system stores a second data structure for a second prefix that is a sub-prefix of the first prefi...