US Patent Issued to eBay on Dec. 16 for "Item retrieval using generative model output" (New York, Pennsylvania, California, Washington, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,167, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Item retrieval using generative model output" was invented by Nazmul Kabir Chowdhury (Nyack, N.Y.), Jonathan Frank Galsurkar (New York), Jeffrey C. Kahn Jr. (Bristol, Pa.), Hua Gong (Kenmore, Wash.), Sathishkumar Veeraraghavan (San Ramon, Calif.) and Yuri Michael Brovman (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects relate to technologies for leveraging model output from a generative model to perform item retrieval on a listing platform. In some examples, input for item retrieval is provided to a generative model to produce a model output. A lookup is perform...