ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,702, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Providing image context for information retrieval" was invented by Yaqub Abdullahi Mahmoud (Tokyo), Mehari Yohannes Hailemariam (Tokyo) and Nazeeruddin Mohammed (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes at least one processor, and at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor and configured to store executable instructions executable by the at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to perform operations. The operations include extracting text from a document, vectorizing the extracted text to obtain at least one vector, extr...