US Patent Issued to Apple on March 3 for "Visual search for electronic devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,252, issued on March 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Visual search for electronic devices" was invented by Lukas A. Bossard (Cupertino, Calif.), Matthias Dantone (Cupertino, Calif.), Pulah J. Shah (Cupertino, Calif.), Wentao Wu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yang Zhao (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology provides visual search systems and methods that can be used to efficiently perform visual searches on an electronic device. The subject technology provides systems and methods for presenting one or more visual indicators corresponding to the searchable portions of digital content. A vi...