ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,089, issued on July 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generative search engine results documents" was invented by Mohamed Salman Ismail Gadit (San Jose, Calif.), Andrea Jacqueline Pagotto (Ontario, Canada), Shiroy Sohrab Choksey (Pleasanton, Calif.), Elbio Renato Torres Abib (Bellevue, Wash.), Nathan James Chalmers (Seattle) and Shivani Sridhar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes utilizing a generative document system to dynamically build and provide generative search result documents. The generative document system utilizes an aggregated framework that le...