US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 17 for "Image-based complementary item recommendations" (California, Washington, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,564, issued on March 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Image-based complementary item recommendations" was invented by Shan Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xijun Wang (Greenbelt, Md.), Anqi Liang (Seattle) and Ming Lin (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-stage learning framework provides image-based complementary item recommendations. After receiving an image of a real-world scene depicting at least one object, the first stage generates feature embeddings for the real-world scene and the at least one object. The second stage generates a predicted feature embedding for at least one predicted object fr...