ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,356, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Counterfeit item detection system" was invented by Jean-David Ruvini (Mountain View, Calif.), Ramesh Periyathambi (San Ramon, Calif.) and Lakshimi Duraivenkatesh (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A counterfeit item detection system detects counterfeit items during an item listing processes provided by an online marketplace. The system enhances the ability of the online marketplace to identify and reject potential counterfeit items. The system comprises a trained counterfeit item detection model that is configured to receive an image and identify whet...