ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,035, issued on July 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Ranking modifications of a previous query" was invented by Bruce Christensen (Mountain View, Calif.), Pravir Kumar Gupta (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jan Kuipers (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus related to ranking modifications of a previous query. For example, modifications of a previous query may be generated based on a current query issued subsequent to the previous query by substituting one or more n-grams of the previous query with one or more n-grams of the current query. One or more measures of each of the mod...