ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,909, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Item-specific search controls in a search system" was invented by Jonathan David Chard (Portland, Ore.), Erin Miller (San Jose, Calif.), Tyler Yong Nugent (Portland, Ore.), Yihung Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Benjamin Blechman (Portland, Ore.) and Brian Wayne Davis (Hillsboro, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer storage media for processing search queries using item-based search refinement are provided. In response to a search query, search result items are displayed on a search interface. The search result items each have an associated ite...