ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,255, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Pinterest Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for identifying complementary objects having similar styles" was invented by Chenyi Li (San Francisco), Kunlong Gu (Belmont, Calif.), Eric Kim (San Francisco), Andrew Huan Zhai (San Mateo, Calif.) and Charles Joseph Rosenberg (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods for determining complementary and/or matching objects based on an input query object. The described systems and methods can generate an embedding representative of the provided object, which can be transformed to generate a style embedding ...