ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,487, issued on July 29, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Consolidation of responses from queries to disparate data sources" was invented by Anuj Thakkar (Mountain View, Calif.), Chaitrali Amrutkar (Mountain View, Calif.), Ognjen Nikolic (Mountain View, Calif.), Jason Douglas (Mountain View, Calif.), Ilya Firman (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Steve Chen (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Consolidation of disparate data source queries is provided. An application intake component can receive an application package file, and process the file to identify one or more actions and entities for the application....