ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,157, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Visual search interface in an operating system" was invented by Golden Gopal Krishna (Albany, Calif.), Simon Edward Roberts (Brighton and Hove, Great Britain), Sarah Fay Smith (San Francisco), Rosemary Margaret La Prairie (London), Zhipeng Pan (San Mateo, Calif.), Clement Dickinson Wright (Los Angeles), Shadia Walsh (San Francisco), Carsten Hinz (Mountain View, Calif.) and Stacy Lou Chiou (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Visual search in an operating system of a computing device can process and provide additional information on the content being pro...