US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Nov. 25 for "Methods and apparatus for correcting search queries" (New Jersey, New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,709, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Methods and apparatus for correcting search queries" was invented by Anyi Chen (Weehawken, N.J.), Guang Yang (Bellevue, Wash.), Eran Lewis (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Zheng Yan (Short Hills, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining query corrections based on prior interactions of users with a search query. In some examples, a computing device receives a search query from a user, and returns a query correction to the user in response to the search query. The computing device obtains engag...