ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,290, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DoorDash Inc. (San Francisco).

"Image selection using machine learning" was invented by Chun-Chen Kuo (San Francisco) and Yu Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a server computer, a plurality of images associated with one or more service providers. The server computer then receives an inquiry request, and determines an image of the plurality of images. The image is selected in response to a composite score based on a scoring algorithm scoring each image in the plurality of images. The scoring algorithm comprises a conver...