ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,476, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Refined search with machine learning" was invented by Golden Gopal Krishna (Berkeley, Calif.), Carl Magnus Borg (San Francisco), Miroslav Bojic (San Francisco), Henry Owen Newton-Dunn (Mountain View, Calif.), Jacob M. Klinker (Mountain View, Calif.), Mindy Pereira (Santa Clara, Calif.), Devin Mancuso (San Francisco), Daniel June Hyung Park (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Lily Sin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and devices for a refined search with machine learning. These techniques improve computer-aided searches thr...