US Patent Issued to eBay on Oct. 20 for "System for recommending items based on a search query" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,801, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System for recommending items based on a search query" was invented by Sourigna Phetsarath (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Akshay Agarwal (Morristown, N.J.), Prathamesh Jagtap (Edison, N.J.) and Nimish Ronghe (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search query for an item having at least one object is received. An item identification (id) for the item is then determined using the at least one object. A first database having item identification (ids) associated with object types is accessed. Using the item id, a determination is made whether the first database has a...