ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,905, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Reducing false positives in entity matching based on image-linking graphs" was invented by Ramnarayan Vijapur Gopinath Rao (Chennai, India), Rajkumar Baskaran (Vellore, India) and Rishabh Goel (Palwal, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented for performing comprehensive and accurate matching of user accounts with one or more known entities based on image-linking graphs. Images related to each known entity are retrieved from one or more online sources. Faces are extracted from the images. Based on attributes of the faces in the imag...