US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on May 27 for "Systems and methods that match search queries to television subtitles" (British, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,893, issued on May 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods that match search queries to television subtitles" was invented by Zbigniew Skolicki (Cracow, Poland), Yaroslav Volovich (Cambridge, Great Britain), Ant Oztaskent (London) and Varun Rajgarhia (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process identifies a search query spike from queries submitted by users during a first span of time, which is less than a predefined duration. The spike corresponds to a set of queries identified as equivalent. The frequency of submitting queries from the set during the first time span exceeds the frequency of ...