ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,771, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Selective presentation of content types and sources in search" was invented by Daniel Belov (San Francisco), Matthew E. Kulick (San Francisco), Adam D. Bursey (San Jose, Calif.), David Yen (San Francisco) and Maureen Heymans (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the present disclosure include actions of receiving a search query, identifying potential search results responsive to the search query, the potential search results corresponding to digital content stored in one or more computer-readable storage media, determining that the...