ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,836, issued on April 29, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Unified message search" was invented by Vinh Quoc Ly (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ahmet Onur Tekdas (Santa Clara, Calif.), Timo Mertens (Millbrae, Calif.), Okan Kolak (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Charles Randell Sievert (San Jose, Calif.), Christine Nguyen (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jin Lu (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments include computerized methods, systems, and devices, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating terms of a search query based on a user's spoken utterances, identifying multi...