ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,466, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Ranking publications for an object of interest" was invented by Mahyar Najibikohnehshahri (San Jose, Calif.), Fan Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Qiaosong Wang (San Francisco) and Robinson Piramuthu (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for adding new features to a network service. An example method includes accessing an image from a user device to determine a salient object count of a plurality of objects in the image. A salient object count of the plurality of objects in the image is determined. An indicator...