ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,562, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Media consumption history" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a request that includes a user identifier of a user that submitted a search query and an entity identifier of an entity that is referenced by the search query, identifying a plurality of knowledge elements that are related to the entity, identifying, in a consumption database, one or more items that have been indicated as consumed by the user and that are associated with the entity that is referenced ...