US Patent Issued to DEMAND SCIENCE GROUP on July 1 for "Visual filtering system and method" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,398, issued on July 1, was assigned to DEMAND SCIENCE GROUP LLC (Danvers, Mass.).

"Visual filtering system and method" was invented by Nicolas Dengler (Danvers, Mass.) and Iskander Pols (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual filtering system and method provides an overview of the search landscape while the user is performing a search. The visual filtering allows the user to see the tentative results of a new search filter (and how many search results will be matching) before the user implements the new search filter. The visual filtering system may be implemented in part using a browser extension/plug-in."

The patent...