US Patent Issued to Home Depot Product Authority on Feb. 17 for "Motif-based image classification" (Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,352, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Home Depot Product Authority LLC (Atlanta).

"Motif-based image classification" was invented by Aron Yu (Round Rock, Texas) and Estelle Afshar (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for displaying images similar to a selected image includes receiving, from a user, a selection of an anchor image, generating, using a machine learning model, an anchor embeddings set for the anchor image and respective candidate embeddings sets for a plurality of candidate images. The method also includes calculating a distance between the anchor embeddings set and each of the plurality of candidate embedd...