ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,840, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Semantic-based font searching in vector space using machine learning" was invented by Joseph Logan Olson (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, semantic-based font searching may be performed in vector space using machine learning. Text and images may therefore be put into a same embedded vector space so that font images that are close, in the vector space, to a word from a font search query may be returned as search results. Thus, an end-user can enter a natural language search query string for the system to retu...