ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,962, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Pinterest Inc. (San Francisco).
"Dynamic search control invocation and visual search" was invented by Kelei Xu (Mountain View, Calif.), Naveen Gavini (San Francisco), Kevin Yushi Jing (San Francisco), Andrew Huan Zhai (San Mateo, Calif.), Dmitry Olegovich Kislyuk (San Francisco), Adam Jay Barton (Oakland, Calif.) and Marcelo Reis e Silva de Queiroz (Winter Garden, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system and method for enabling dynamic selection of a search input. For example, rather than having a static search input box, the search input may be dynamically positioned such that i...