US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Contextualized visual search" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,807, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Contextualized visual search" was invented by Divine Keetle-Maloney (Santa Clara, Calif.), Steven A. Marchette (Saratoga, Calif.) and David Hobbins (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide a view of a physical environment with a visual effect based on determining whether an object is a searched-for object. For example, an example process may include determining an objective corresponding to identifying a searched-for object in a physical environment including one ...