US Patent Issued to eBay on April 21 for "Hybrid vector database" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,356, issued on April 21, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hybrid vector database" was invented by Hao Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sami Ben Romdhane (Los Altos, Calif.), Navaneetha Krishnan Thanka Nadar (Seattle), Venkata R. Yella (Saratoga, Calif.), Yuri L. Finkelstein (San Carlos, Calif.), Viswa Prasad Vutharkar (Roseville, Calif.), Yongwei Lu (Cupertino, Calif.), Erfan Zamanian Dolati (San Jose, Calif.), Mingda Sun (Ontario, Canada) and Souhaila Moalla (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with the described techniques, vector data to be inserted into a vector database is obtained. The vector...