US Patent Issued to eBay on July 28 for "Item retrieval using fitment data-based part clustering" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,042, issued on July 28, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Item retrieval using fitment data-based part clustering" was invented by Antonio Russo (Campbell, Calif.), Sarabdeep Singh Multani (San Jose, Calif.) and Prathihasth Rekabu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects relate to technologies for performing item retrieval on a listing platform using clusters of interchangeable parts formed using fitment data. In accordance with some aspects, item data is accessed for each of a plurality of part item listings on a listing platform, where the item data for each part item listing includes fitment data....