US Patent Issued to Match Group on Oct. 20 for "Apparatus for photo selection and method thereof" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,905, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Match Group LLC (Dallas).

"Apparatus for photo selection and method thereof" was invented by Eunhyouk Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Joonyoung Yi (Seoul, South Korea), Lawrence Anthony Sequino (Los Angeles) and Kyle Garrett Miller (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is implemented by a computing device and includes taking a first photo with a camera of the device; determining an embedding of the first photo; identifying a second photo stored in the device, at least in part based on the embedding of the first photo; and uploading the second photo."

The patent was filed on Dec. 2, 2...