US Patent Issued to Maplebear on July 14 for "Machine-learning models for extracting and classifying image content, and augmenting image based on same" (New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,430, issued on July 14, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Machine-learning models for extracting and classifying image content, and augmenting image based on same" was invented by Sanchit Gupta (Seattle) and Axel Mange (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system that displays items from an item catalog to users supplements content displayed for one or more of the items with information extracted from images of the items. For a particular item in the item catalog, the online system performs image processing, such as optical character recognition, on one or more images of the item to extract text phrases fr...