US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 17 for "Digital supplement association and retrieval for visual search" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,194, issued on March 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Digital supplement association and retrieval for visual search" was invented by Alan Lee Joyce (Mountain View, Calif.), Edgar Chung (Mountain View, Calif.), Zhe Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ian Mesa (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Joseph Olson (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identification and retrieval of content for visual search are provided. An example method includes receiving data specifying a digital supplement. The data may identify a digital supplement and a supplement anchor for associating the digital supplem...