US Patent Issued to eBay on Sept. 2 for "Parallel prediction of multiple image aspects" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,997, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Parallel prediction of multiple image aspects" was invented by Mohammadhadi Kiapour (San Francisco), Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale (San Jose, Calif.), Robinson Piramuthu (Oakland, Calif.) and Licheng Yu (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments that analyze images to characterize aspects of the images rely on a same neural network to characterize multiple aspects in parallel. Because additional neural networks are not required for additional aspects, such an approach scales with increased aspects."

The patent was filed on May 22, 2023, under...