ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,161, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Providing a well-formed alternate phrase as a suggestion in lieu of a not well-formed phrase" was invented by Wangqing Yuan (Wilmington, Mass.), David Kogan (Natick, Mass.), Vincent Lacey (Mountain View, Calif.), Guanglei Wang (Cambridge, Calif.), Shaun Post (San Mateo, Calif.), Bryan Christopher Horling (Belmont, Mass.) and Michael Anthony Schuler (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to determining a well-formed phrase to suggest to a user to submit in lieu of a not well-formed phrase. The suggestion is rendered via an interfac...