US Patent Issued to PayPal on Sept. 22 for "Systems and methods for similarity-based universal object-detection for joint identification" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,868, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for similarity-based universal object-detection for joint identification" was invented by Jiawei He (Shanghai) and Yao Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method may include receiving an image to analyze for potential objects; providing the image as input to a pretrained machine learning model, where the pretrained machine learning model is trained to detect a known object that corresponds to a predefined category within the pretrained machine learning model or a generic object; determining based on output f...