ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,969, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for guided capture methodologies" was invented by Aditya Ramesh (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ali Shahrokni (San Jose, Calif.), James Dylan Hines (Newberg, Ore.), Marco Piccirilli (Campbell, Calif.), Qiaosong Wang (San Francisco) and Antonio Haro (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may receive, from a client device, a user input indicating a product that is to be listed for sale via an online marketplace, and may transmit an instruction for the client device to capture a video of the p...