ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,986, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Intelligent computer search engine removal of search results" was invented by Yuyangzi Fu (Jiangsu, China), Xueyuan Jiang (Shanghai), Zihao Jiang (Shanghai), Jingying Wang (Shanghai) and Kaikai Tong (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer information retrieval by automatically marking at least a first item listing, of a first set of item listings, as a candidate for removal as a search result for a query. Such automatic marking occurs in response to receiving an indication that a selection has been made at a computing device, where the selection is at le...