ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,891, issued on June 17, was assigned to KAYAK Software Corp. (Stamford, Conn.).
"Search system optimization" was invented by Jacob Vincent Bouvrie (Arlington, Mass.) and Tianbai Cui (Seabrook, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for optimizing a digital resource search. One of the methods includes receiving a search query that specifies one or more parameters including a first parameter for a web resource request; determining that the first parameter is a particular parameter; in response to determining that the first parameter is a partic...