US Patent Issued to eBay on Aug. 25 for "Deep navigation via a multimodal vector model" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,782, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Deep navigation via a multimodal vector model" was invented by Christopher Roman Miller (San Francisco), Shubhangi Tandon (Dublin, Calif.), Senthilkumar Gopal (Fremont, Calif.) and Selcuk Kopru (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimodal embedding modifier generates a modified seed search selection embedding for providing a set of search results. The multimodal embedding modifier enhances the ability and accuracy of identifying a user's true intent when searching the online marketplace. For example, embodiments disclosed herein can allow a user t...