ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,882, issued on July 29, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Providing an item image" was invented by Jack Sheu (Mountain View, Calif.), Charles F. Pletcher (Los Altos, Calif.) and Selina Lam (Castro Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first device captures an image of an item and provides the image depicting the item, information usable to direct an electronic communication to the first device, and a textual descriptor to a host machine. The host machine is accessible by a second device. The first device receives an electronic communication from the second device regarding the image based on the information usa...