ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,109, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Retrieving context from previous sessions" was invented by Ajay Joshi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for retrieving and using contextual data from previous conversation sessions in conversational searches. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first query for a first user session, determining that the first query refers to one or more tags in a first repository, the first repository associating respective identifiers to respective ...