US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 18 for "Systems and methods for grouping search results into dynamic categories based on query and result set" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,167, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for grouping search results into dynamic categories based on query and result set" was invented by Anubhav Malhotra (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and John M. Hornkvist (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus of a device that indexes donated content from an application on a device is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives donated content for an application object from the application. The device further associates a metadata tag for a topic to the donated content. In addition, the device indexes the d...