ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,920, issued on May 6, was assigned to EarthDaily Analytics USA Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Geo-visual search" was invented by Ryan S. Keisler (Oakland, Calif.), Samuel W. Skillman (Santa Fe, N.M.) and Michael S. Warren (Los Alamos, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Performing a geo-visual search is disclosed. A query feature vector associated with a query tile is obtained. A lookup is performed at least in part by using a key derived from the query feature vector. A list of candidate feature vectors is obtained based at least in part on the lookup. Based at least in part on a comparison of the query feature vector against at least ...