ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,366, issued on May 26, was assigned to Mars Inc. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for a pet image search based on a pet image created by a user" was invented by Isabella Terrazas (Stanford, Calif.), Ignacio Gatti (Buenos Aires, Argentina), John Orozco (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Rohan Kothakupu (Chicago) and Cameron Turner (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for analyzing a pet sketch to determine one or more matching pet images is disclosed. The method includes receiving the pet sketch from a user device, analyzing the pet sketch to determine one or more characteristics corresponding to t...