ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,269, issued on May 27, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).
"Customizing search queries for informational retrieval" was invented by Alexander Lin (Arlington, Va.), Cruz Vargas (Denver), Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia), Max Miracolo (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Mia Rodriguez (Arlington, Va.) and Phoebe Atkins (Midlothian, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems disclosed herein describe customizing searching. Search queries may be customized according to a user's preferences. A user may emphasize or indicate that additional weight should be given to one or more terms in a search query. Terms that are weighted hig...