US Patent Issued to EBAY on Dec. 30 for "Authentication system using object fingerprinting" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,932, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to EBAY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Authentication system using object fingerprinting" was invented by Bo Yan (La Jolla, Calif.) and Raghavendra Rao Chitradurga Vijayendra (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are directed to authenticating items using object fingerprinting and deep learning. A system extracts visual features from an image of the item to be authenticated. Using the visual features, the system performs prefiltering by comparing the visual features from the image of the item to visual features of an image of an authentic item that is same or similar to the ...