US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 20 for "Search-query suggestions using reinforcement learning" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,412, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Search-query suggestions using reinforcement learning" was invented by Praveen Kumar Bodigutla (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for suggesting related search queries. One method includes an operation for obtaining a supervised model by training a machine-learning (ML) program with training data that includes search queries entered by users of an online service. Further, the method includes operations for initializing a generator model with the supervised model, and for ...