US Patent Issued to Shopify on Sept. 1 for "Systems and methods for performing vector search" (Canadian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,806, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for performing vector search" was invented by Daniel Beauchamp (Toronto) and Andreas Winschu (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a search query input; generating input enhancement data based on the search query input, the generating comprising processing the search query input using a large language model (LLM); causing to transform at least one of the search query input or the input enhancement data into a first vector embedding; and performing a search of an embedding s...