ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,277, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Brand-focused machine learning model training engine in an item listing system" was invented by Jayashree Subramanian (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing brand-focused machine learning model training in an item listing system are described. The brand-focused machine learning model training engine supports training a brand-focused machine learning model that predicts brands for item listings that do not include brand information. The training can be based on novel training techniques and traini...