ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,193, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to OPEN TEXT SA ULC (Halifax, Canada).

"Search systems and methods utilizing search based user clustering" was invented by Jaime Ayats Ardite (Terrassa, Spain) and Todd Russell Poston (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of search systems that leverage the search or access activities of a core group of users to improve search functionality and performance of such search systems are disclosed. Specifically, embodiments may utilize users' search activity to generate clusters of users and associated labels for those clusters. These clusters can be leveraged during a search to generate s...