ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,273, issued on April 7, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Camera platform incorporating schedule and stature" was invented by Shuai Zheng (Berkeley, Calif.), Fan Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Mohammadhadi Kiapour (San Francisco), Qiaosong Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Japjit S. Tulsi (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Robinson Piramuthu (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Camera platform techniques are described. In an implementation, a plurality of digital images and data describing times, at which, the plurality of digital images are captured is received by a computing device. Objects of clothing are recognized from the d...