US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Filter direction modifications to vector-based search" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,310, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Filter direction modifications to vector-based search" was invented by Milind Arjanbhai Shyani (Newark, Calif.), Yonatan Naamad (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Supriya Nagesh (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Filter direction modifications are performed in vector-based searches. A query data item is obtained along with a data item filter to perform a data item search on a set of data items. A query vector that represents the query in feature space is generated and modified using a filter vector obtained from a matrix of filter vectors generated for...