ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,610, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for generating trending search queries using predictive search engines" was invented by Junchao Zheng (Jersey City, N.J.), Chen Song (Princeton, N.J.), Jun Zhao (Jersey City, N.J.) and Zheng Yan (Short Hills, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform functions relating to detecting trending search queries that are popular in a short-term time period. Us...