ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,884, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to EBAY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Automatic lot classification" was invented by Daniel Lee Hurwitz (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Ido Guy (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and media for lot classification are disclosed. In one example, a classification system for identifying lot listings receives a description for a listing in a publication system, identifies a string in the listing, identifies a quantity word or digit in the string, and converts an identified quantity word into digit form. A normalized string is tokenized to produce tokens, the tokenizing of the normaliz...