ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,253, issued on May 27, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Use of camera metadata for recommendations" was invented by Neelakantan Sundaresan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various example embodiments, a system and method for using camera metadata for making recommendations are presented. At least one image file having camera metadata is received. The camera metadata of the at least one image file is analyzed to determine improvements to image capture aspects associated with the at least one image file. Feedback related to the improvements to the image capture aspects associated with the at least ...