US Patent Issued to eBay on Feb. 3 for "Method, system, and article of manufacture for computer search engine ranking for accessory and sub-accessory requests" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,783, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method, system, and article of manufacture for computer search engine ranking for accessory and sub-accessory requests" was invented by Dingxian Wang (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments improve search technologies and computer information retrieval by executing a query via ranking a set of search result candidates higher than another set search result candidates based at least in part on the query and determining that a first set of search result candidates are indicative of a sub-accessory to an accessory or an accessory itself."

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