ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,401, issued on June 3, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Multimodal query prediction" was invented by Jessica Lee (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Cindy L. Huynh (San Francisco), Harshit Kharbanda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Louis Wang (San Francisco), Richard Cameron (Port Washington, N.Y.), Christophe Patrice Fondacci (Daly City, Calif.), Ruslan Alfridovich Abdikeev (Burlingame, Calif.), Jatin Matani (San Francisco), Kai Yu (San Francisco) and Wenjia Yuan (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for multimodal query suggestion can include obtaining image data, determining text strings associated with t...