ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,341, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (Lehi, Utah).
"Hybrid search-and-browse interface" was invented by Robert Baird Wille (Saratoga Springs, Utah), Christopher Todd Brewer (Orem, Utah), Blake Matthew Scarbrough (Saratoga Springs, Utah) and Justin Blake Christensen (Riverton, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for generating and providing a hybrid search-and-browse interface for accurately and efficiently locating and presenting targeted genealogical content items. For example, the disclosed systems ge...