ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,055, issued on May 13, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Unified framework for multi-modal similarity search" was invented by Pranav Vineet Aggarwal (San Jose, Calif.), Ali Aminian (San Jose, Calif.), Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale (San Jose, Calif.) and Aashish Kumar Misraa (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed herein for enhanced similarity search. In an implementation, a search environment includes one or more computing hardware, software, and/or firmware components in support of enhanced similarity search. The one or more components identify a modality for a similarity search with respect...