ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,655, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TARGET BRANDS INC. (Minneapolis).

"Methods and systems for providing query metrics" was invented by Karthik Gorti (Bengalaru, India), Payal Verma (Patna, India) and Deepa Sarasamma (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to scoring queries based on accesses to databases. The scoring of a query can include generating a sub-score for each of one or more query metrics and generating an overall score for the query using at least some or all of the sub-scores. Additional information that is associated with the query may also be determined. User inputs...