ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,293, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Assisted searching of non-document items" was invented by Dongeek Shin (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed implementations provide a streamlined, assisted search process for surfacing items from a database that enables guided exploratory searching. For example, a system may receive selected content from a client device and determine a first object and a second object for the selected content using a search converter. The system may generate first results by performing a first search of items in a database using the first object as a...