ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,241, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLGOIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).
"Vector search method and apparatus" was invented by Haotian Li (Shenzhen, China), Debao Li (Hangzhou, China) and Qintao Zhang (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vector search method includes obtaining a query object, obtaining, by querying a first index, N vector identifiers corresponding to the query object, where the first index is stored in a memory, N is a positive integer, the N vector identifiers include a plurality of first vector identifiers, and the first vector identifier is a vector identifier that is not determined to b...