26 search-engineering patents by Srinivasan Venkatachary, co-inventor on the Generative Summaries for Search Results patent family that underpins AI Overviews and Search Generative Experience. Also covers enhanced search feeds based on user interests, candidate-answer-passage scoring, context-scoring adjustments for answer passages, implicit question query identification, keyword-based conversational voice search, query generation via document structural similarity, resource identification from organic and structured content, content channel curation, and the emoji classifier. Spans 2013 to 2025.
About the Srinivasan Venkatachary, Google Search Patents track
26 search-engineering patents by Srinivasan Venkatachary, co-inventor on the Generative Summaries for Search Results patent family that underpins AI Overviews and Search Generative Experience. Also covers enhanced search feeds based on user interests, candidate-answer-passage scoring, context-scoring adjustments for answer passages, implicit question query identification, keyword-based conversational voice search, query generation via document structural similarity, resource identification from organic and structured content, content channel curation, and the emoji classifier. Spans 2013 to 2025.
Generative AI Search (SGE & AI Overviews)
- Generative Summaries for Search Results (US 11,769,017 · September 26, 2023)
- Generative Summaries for Search Results (continuation 2024) (US 11,886,828 · January 30, 2024)
- Generative Summaries for Search Results (continuation 2024b) (US 11,900,068 · February 13, 2024)
- Generative Summaries for Search Results (continuation 2024c) (US 12,118,325 · October 15, 2024)
- Generative Summaries for Search Results (app 2024) (US App 2024/0220735 · July 4, 2024)
- Generative Summaries for Search Results (app 2025) (US App 2025/0005303 · January 2, 2025)
- Enhanced Search to Generate a Feed Based on a User's Interests (US 12,032,638 · July 9, 2024)
- Enhanced Search to Generate a Feed Based on a User's Interests (app 2018) (US App 2018/0246972 · August 30, 2018)
- Enhanced Search to Generate a Feed Based on a User's Interests (app 2024) (US App 2024/0220554 · July 4, 2024)
- Enhanced Search for Generating a Content Feed (US App 2018/0246974 · August 30, 2018)
Answer Passages (Featured Snippets & SGE Grounding)
- Candidate Answer Passages (US 10,180,964 · January 15, 2019)
- Scoring Candidate Answer Passages (US 9,940,367 · April 10, 2018)
- Scoring Candidate Answer Passages (continuation) (US 10,783,156 · September 22, 2020)
- Context Scoring Adjustments for Answer Passages (US 9,959,315 · May 1, 2018)
- Context Scoring Adjustments for Answer Passages (continuation) (US 11,409,748 · August 9, 2022)
Query Understanding
- Implicit Question Query Identification (US 9,898,554 · February 20, 2018)
- Implicit Question Query Identification (app) (US App 2015/0142851 · May 21, 2015)
- Keyword-Based Conversational Searching Using Voice Commands (US 9,305,064 · April 5, 2016)
- Query Generation Using Structural Similarity Between Documents (US 8,346,792 · January 1, 2013)
- Query Generation Using Structural Similarity Between Documents (continuation 2015) (US 9,092,479 · July 28, 2015)
- Query Generation Using Structural Similarity Between Documents (continuation 2016) (US 9,436,747 · September 6, 2016)
Content Curation & Discovery
- Resource Identification from Organic and Structured Content (US 8,688,714 · April 1, 2014)
- Resource Identification from Organic and Structured Content (continuation) (US 8,688,715 · April 1, 2014)
- Content Channel Curation (US App 2019/0266283 · August 29, 2019)
- Emoji Classifier (US App 2019/0258719 · August 22, 2019)
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