ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,049, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Cross-vertical distribution of sponsored content" was invented by Alan G. Doubleday (South Wales, Australia) and Jordan Bayliss-McCulloch (Beaconsfield, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented on one or more processors includes identifying a user search query that was submitted through a map interface, wherein the user search query identifies a first geographic location, determining a first geographic identifier that is not included in the user search query based on an abstraction of the first geographic location, determining, based on ...