US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Aug. 5 for "Methods and systems for presenting privacy friendly query activity based on environmental signal(s)" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,169, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for presenting privacy friendly query activity based on environmental signal(s)" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Victor Carbune (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are directed to receiving a search query from a user, obtaining environmental signal(s) associated with an environment in which the user is located when the search query is received, processing the environmental signal(s) to generate a privacy measure associated with submission of the search query, obtaining additional environmental...