Google patent inventor
Srinivasan Venkatachary is a search engineering leader who worked at Google before co-founding the machine learning startup Laserlike in 2015. After Apple acquired Laserlike, he helped lead a search team at Apple. He returned to Google in 2022 as a vice president of engineering. He is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
All their Google patents on Google PatentsPatent US 11,769,017 describes how Google writes an AI summary from search results, which documents it reads, how it links each sentence to a page that verifies it, and when it trusts the answer. The full mechanism and what it means for GEO.
Patent US 9,959,315 adjusts the score of candidate answer passages with the path of headings above them, the match between headings and the question, the coverage of the passage, a preceding question and lists. The full mechanism and how to structure pages for featured answers.
Patent US 9,940,367 describes how Google builds candidate answer passages from the top results and scores them with query terms, expected answer terms and 6 query-independent signals. The full mechanism and how to write passages that get picked.