ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,761, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Product identification in media items" was invented by Marco Ziccardi (Basel, Switzerland), Min-hsuan Tsai (San Jose, Calif.), Wei-Hong Chuang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Rahul Sunil Bhalerao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ye Xia (Santa Clara, Calif.), Madhuri Shanbhogue (San Jose, Calif.), Mojtaba Seyedhosseini (Foster City, Calif.), Mike Krainin (Arlington, Mass.), Andrei Kapishnikov (Watertown, Mass.) and Yuanzhen Li (Newton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining first data including a first identifier of a first product determine in association...