ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,151, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Embedding based retrieval for image search" was invented by Suddha Kalyan Basu (San Jose, Calif.), Wei Fan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daniel Glasner (New York), Sushrut Suresh Karanjkar (Fremont, Calif.), Thomas Richard Strohmann (Cupertino, Calif.), Shubhang Verma (Mountain View, Calif.), Manas Ashok Pathak (Mountain View, Calif.), Wenyuan Yin (Cupertino, Calif.) and Sundeep Tirumalareddy (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for retrieving image sear...