US Patent Issued to eBay on Dec. 9 for "Methods and systems for reducing item selection error in an e-commerce environment" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,905, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for reducing item selection error in an e-commerce environment" was invented by Xiao Xiao Liu (Shanghai), Erin Louise Delacroix (Vallejo, Calif.), Elizabeth Dobbin (San Francisco) and Hema Budaraju (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for displaying, to a user interface, categories of items for the user to select from for querying the system, in order to enable the system to return to the user images of items of the type desired by the user for possible purchase. The items categories of items can be presented to t...