US Patent Issued to Apple on May 20 for "Thumbnail for disambiguation in a visual search" (California, Colorado, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,152, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Thumbnail for disambiguation in a visual search" was invented by Thomas J Moore (Northglenn, Colo.), Alesha Unpingco (Milpitas, Calif.), Anshu K Chimalamarri (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ashwin K Vijay (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher D Fu (Fremont, Calif.), Guilherme Klink (Cupertino, Calif.), In Young Yang (Kirkland, Wash.), Paul Ewers (San Jose, Calif.), Paulo R Jansen dos Reis (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Burgner (Venice, Calif.), Thomas G Salter (San Francisco) and Tigran Khachatryan (North Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted device may be used ...