ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,993, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Media consumption history" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving, from a user, a request that includes an entity identifier associated with an entity that is referenced by one or more query terms of a search query, determining that the entity is identified in a media consumption database as a media item that has been indicated as consumed by the user or that the entity is associated with a media item that is identified in the media consumption database as a media i...