ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,803, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Baby List Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"System, method, and computer program for saving a product listing to a product registry based on a photographic image" was invented by Aaron Smith (Las Vegas), Kristen Turner (San Francisco), Harvey Fang (Los Angeles) and Beatriz Miranda (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product listing is saved to a product registry based on a photographic image. A client application receives a product image from a user's camera or photo library. The client application obtains a URL for the image and calls an API with the URL, where the API requests search ...