US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Jan. 20 for "Visual citations for information provided in response to multimodal queries" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,398, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Visual citations for information provided in response to multimodal queries" was invented by Harshit Kharbanda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Jessica Lee (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Christopher James Kelley (Orinda, Calif.), Belinda Luna Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.) and Louis Wang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A result image is retrieved based on a similarity between a query image and the result image. A first unit of text is obtained, wherein the first unit of text comprises at least a portion of textual content of a source document that includes the result image....