US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on June 24 for "Intelligent systems and methods for visual search queries" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,896, issued on June 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Intelligent systems and methods for visual search queries" was invented by Brett Aladdin Barros (San Mateo, Calif.), Joshua Lee Fleetwood (San Jose, Calif.) and Paulo Jose Telo Coelho (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user can submit a visual query that includes one or more images. Various processing techniques such as optical character recognition (OCR) techniques can be used to recognize text (e.g. in the image, surrounding image(s), etc.) and/or various object detection techniques (e.g., machine-learned object detection models, etc.) may be used t...