US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Feb. 18 for "Expandable content items for presenting additional content" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,806, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Expandable content items for presenting additional content" was invented by Amy Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Brandon Murdock Pearcy (San Francisco), Nathan Peter Lucash (San Francisco), Jun Xu (Shanghai), Yi Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Zhen Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving from a client device a request for content, and transmitting to the client device a first content item, a second content item, and a script for displaying the first and second content items within an information resource. The script includes instructions...