US Patent Issued to Coactive Systems on Aug. 4 for "Image search using vectors" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,729, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Coactive Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Image search using vectors" was invented by Stephen Oscar Mussmann (Fremont, Calif.) and Seby Jacob (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server receives, from a client device, an image search query comprising multiple search components. The server maps each of the multiple search components to a component embedding vector to generate multiple component embedding vectors. The server mathematically combines the multiple component embedding vectors to generate multiple query vectors with different mathematical combinations. The server identifies, for ...