ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,882, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Reno, Nev.).

"Object classification for visual search" was invented by Amit Kumar K C (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Arnab Dhua (Cupertino, Calif.) and Doug Gray (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure presents approaches for accurately detecting one or more objects of interest in an input image. A bounding box may be generated around the object of interest and may be processed to predict a classification of the object of interest. One or more spatial features may also be determined based, at least in part, upon additional image data located...