ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,004, issued on May 27, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Integrating a product model into a user supplied image" was invented by Shreyas Ravindra (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for integrating a product model into a user supplied image are presented herein. A method is disclosed that includes receiving an image of a user space from a user, receiving one or more definitions that describe the user space, retrieving, based on search terms provided by the user, one or more items available at a networked marketplace that fit within the definitions of the user space, and generating a composite image...