ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,498, issued on March 18, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generation of recommendations for visual product details" was invented by Sanjeev Tagra (Redmond, Wash.), Sachin Soni (New Delhi), Ryan Rozich (Austin, Texas), Nitish Maurya (Noida, India), Jonathan Roeder (Round Rock, Texas), Ajay Jain (Ghaziabad, India) and Ajay Bedi (Hamirpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for generating image recommendations to facilitate the sale of a product. An example methodology includes identifying a product category associated with an image of the product provided by the seller, and a product sub-categ...