ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,281, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Search request processing method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Yating Lin (Beijing), Yujie Wu (Beijing), Mulan Hou (Beijing), Xiaokun Jiang (Beijing), Pengshuai Li (Beijing), Zijian Zhang (Beijing) and Chaoyang Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a search request processing method, an apparatus, a computer device, a storage medium, a computer product, and a computer program. The method includes: in response to a search instruction, sending a search request comprising a target qu...