ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,861, issued on May 20, was assigned to ImageScan Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.).
"Visual presentation of search results" was invented by Basker S. Krishnan (San Marino, Calif.), Hanoz J. Kateli (Monrovia, Calif.) and Bryan Heesch (West Covina, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses using a computer or handheld device for inputting a keyword for searching, wherein the keyword is associated with a location within a page of a document on which the keyword will appear; inputting the location associated with the keyword, wherein the location is one of the following: a left top quadrant of a page of the document, a...