ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,239, issued on July 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and media for searching for video content" was invented by Garen Checkley (San Francisco) and Bryce Gibson Reid (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples techniques for searching for video content include receiving one or more characters entered into a first query field by a user; determining a predicted search query based on the one or more characters; determining a plurality of suggested search queries based on the one or more characters; causing the predicted search query to be presented in the first query field...