US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on Feb. 10 for "Method and apparatus for automated query generation for search system quality assessment" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,632, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for automated query generation for search system quality assessment" was invented by Diana Bursac (Libertyville, Ill.), Pamela Korda (Chicago) and Arnold Sheynman (Northbrook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for generating search engine input queries using point-of-interest information and permutations thereof to assess the quality of search results produced by and to improve the search engine. Methods may include: identifying a reference point-of-interest from a re...