US Patent Issued to Pinterest on June 2 for "Matching user provided representations of items with sellers of those items" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,096, issued on June 2, was assigned to Pinterest Inc. (San Francisco).

"Matching user provided representations of items with sellers of those items" was invented by Michael Yamartino (San Francisco), Chao Wang (San Francisco), Sridatta Kaustubh Thatipamala (San Francisco) and Yuan Wei (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems and methods for matching user provided images that include representations of items with sellers of those items. A management service, as described herein, may provide a web site where users can post images, view images, share images, correspond with other users, etc. The man...