ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,733, issued on April 21, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Method, article of manufacture, and system for providing category suggestions" was invented by Kshetrajna Raghavan (Fremont, Calif.), Kyle Bruce Tate (Ottawa) and Xinyi Zhao (Etobicoke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for categorizing a product, the method including receiving information for the product; inputting the information into a trained machine learning model for a taxonomy tree; receiving a plurality of arrays, each array representing a level in the taxonomy tree and consisting of probabilities for each category represented in the level that the...