US Patent Issued to ADOBE on June 30 for "Sparse embedding index for search" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,193, issued on June 30, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sparse embedding index for search" was invented by Tung Mai (San Jose, Calif.), Saayan Mitra (San Jose, Calif.), Ryan A. Rossi (San Jose, Calif.), Gaurav Gupta (Houston), Anup Rao (San Jose, Calif.) and Xiang Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search system facilitates efficient and fast near neighbor search given item vector representations of items, regardless of item type or corpus size. To index an item, the search system expands an item vector for the item to generate an expanded item vector and selects elements of the expanded item vec...