ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,373, issued on April 8, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Rendering interactive subsidiary application(s) in response to a search request" was invented by Mike K. Lee (Santa Clara, Calif.), Weizhao Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Swaminathan Subramanian (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yunbing Tan (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Allen Harvey (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations set forth herein relate to providing a subsidiary application GUI via a client interface. The GUI can be rendered when a user is accessing a first party system via an application that is provided by the first party or a separate entity. The subs...