US Patent Issued to Northeastern University on Nov. 3 for "Multi-modal data-driven design concept evaluator" (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,068, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston).

"Multi-modal data-driven design concept evaluator" was invented by Mohsen Moghaddam (Boston), Tucker J. Marion (Holliston, Mass.), Chenxi Yuan (Springfield, Pa.) and Yi Han (Springfield, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for predicting customer sentiment for a product is provided. Customer data is received for multiple products and a vector of customer sentiments is generated that is associated with different aspects of the products. Images are received for multiple products and a latent vector for the images are generated using a p...