US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 15 for "Enhanced shopping based on recognition of objects presented in video" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,017, issued on April 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Enhanced shopping based on recognition of objects presented in video" was invented by Lingyun Wang (Bothell, Wash.), Qipin Chen (Bellevue, Wash.), Xing Ju (Bellevue, Wash.), Gordon Snow Zhang (Seattle) and Jack Patrick Copeland (Clyde Hill, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods are provided for smart shopping based on recognition of objects presented in video. A method may include identifying, by a first device, using a machine learning model using a computer vision technique, objects represented in video content; determining tha...