ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,911, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Search service for a network of social machines" was invented by Gopi Kishan (Bangalore, India), Rohit Jalagadugula (Visakhapatnam, India), Kavitha Krishnan (Bangalore, India), Sai Hareesh Anamandra (Bengaluru, India) and Akash Srivastava (Lucknow, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, at a search toolbar, a search query from a machine in a network. The machine has an associated machine profile for participating in the network as an entity. The machine profile includes a machine identifier and machine metadata. A query type is determined ...