ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,624, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Surfacing live events in search results" was invented by Tilke Mary Judd (Zurich), Zaheed Sabur (Zurich), Eduardo Jodas Samper (Zurich), Alexandru Ovidiu Dovlecel (Zurich) and Ardan Arac (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations include actions of obtaining a set of entities based on one or more terms of a query, obtaining one or more entities associated with each live event of a plurality of live events, identifying a live event that is responsive to the query based on comparing at least one entity in the set of entities to one or more entities...