ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,419, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Analyzing and linking a set of images by identifying objects in each image to determine a primary image and a secondary image" was invented by Nithya Chellam (Bengaluru, India), Rahul Kyamaji (Bengaluru, India), Sruthi Madapoosi Ravi (Chennai, India), Krithika Sairam (Coimbatore, India) and Pranav Shekhar Jha (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of images is accessed from a server. The set is analyzed to identify objects in each image using object recognition algorithms. A primary image that includes more of the identified objects than any of the...