ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,058, issued on April 7, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Identification of items in an image and recommendation of similar enterprise products" was invented by Vishal Vijay Shanker (Minneapolis), Guruprasad Somasundaram (Minneapolis) and Sachin Agarwal (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a system and method whereby an enterprise system can identify items within an image and recommend similar enterprise products to a consumer. In some examples, such a system may include an object detection component trained on a known dataset, which may be used to identify objects/i...