ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,415, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Query based classification" was invented by Jennifer Anne Healey (San Jose, Calif.), Rajiv Bhawanji Jain (Falls Church, Va.) and Joseph D Barrow (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for query based classification are described that support generation of classifications based on user proffered information. In an example, a processing device receives a query for processing by a machine learning model. The processing device then generates a user classification based on the query. The user classification, for instance, indicates one or more user...