US Patent Issued to eBay on Aug. 4 for "Enhanced conceptual search based on enriched categorizations of item listings" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,738, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enhanced conceptual search based on enriched categorizations of item listings" was invented by Andrew Chalkley (Milwaukie, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "AI-driven techniques are provided for generating multi-modal vector representations that incorporate enriched, model-generated category embeddings to enable conceptual search of item listings. For example, the enhanced conceptualized search can include generating a search vector, using one or more generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, based on a received search query. Some embodiments of generating t...