US Patent Issued to Ocient Holdings on March 25 for "Utilizing query approval data determined based on query cost data for a query request" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,886, issued on March 25, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Utilizing query approval data determined based on query cost data for a query request" was invented by S. Christopher Gladwin (Chicago), Andrew D. Baptist (Mt. Pleasant, Wis.), George Kondiles (Chicago) and Jason Arnold (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device is operable to determine a query request based on first user input to a graphical user interface displayed by the user device. Query cost data is determined based on the query request. A prompt is displayed via the graphical user interface that indicates the query cost data. Query approval da...