ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,085, issued on March 24, was assigned to EBAY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Method for determining authenticity of hanging images and deformation analysis of authenticity of item based on authentication score transgressing authenticity threshold" was invented by Dmitry Paskalov (Cliffside Park, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are directed to authenticating items using deformation analysis. An authentication system receives a request to authenticate an item. In response, the authentication system accesses two images of the item, whereby a first image shows the item hanging without a weight load and a second image ...