ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,368, issued on May 26, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Visual citations for information provided in response to multimodal queries" was invented by Harshit Kharbanda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Jessica Lee (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Christopher James Kelley (Orinda, Calif.), Belinda Luna Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.) and Louis Wang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Result images are retrieved based on a similarity to a query image. A set of textual inputs is processed with a machine-learned language model to obtain a language output comprising textual content, wherein the set of textual inputs comprises textual content fr...