ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,969, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Expedia Inc. (Seattle).
"Image classification system" was invented by Li Wen (Redmond, Wash.), Zhanpeng Huo (Shenzhen/Guangdong, China) and Jingya Jiang (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image classification system is provided for determining a likely classification of an image using multiple machine learning models that share a base machine learning model. The image classification system may be a browser-based system on a user computing device that obtains multiple machine learning models over a network from a remote system once, stores the models locally in the image classifi...