ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,042, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NAVER Corp. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Data compatibility for text-enhanced visual retrieval" was invented by Rafael Sampaio De Rezende (Grenoble, France), Diane Larlus (La Tronche, France), Ginger Delmas (Grenoble, France) and Gabriela Csurka Khedari (Crolles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interaction module includes: a first text-image interaction module configured to generate a vector representation of a first text-image pair based on an encoded representation of a reference image and an encoded representation of a text modifier, the reference image and the text modifier received ...