US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Nov. 4 for "Methods and systems for disambiguating user input based on detection of ensembles of items" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,555, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for disambiguating user input based on detection of ensembles of items" was invented by Alexis Yelton (Somerville, Mass.), Xin Xu (Reading, Mass.) and Shreyas Mahimkar (Quincy, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for disambiguating user input based on a physical location of items in a vicinity of a user. The system determines that a query received from a user contains an ambiguity. In response, the system identifies several items in the physical vicinity of the user. Then, the system analyzes the identif...