US Patent Issued to Home Depot Product Authority on March 4 for "Determining visually similar products" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,086, issued on March 4, was assigned to Home Depot Product Authority LLC (Atlanta).

"Determining visually similar products" was invented by Estelle Afshar (Atlanta), Matthew Hagen (Atlanta) and Huiming Qu (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for determining image similarity includes determining, by a first neural network, a first feature value associated with a first characteristic of a first product based on an image of the first product. The method also includes determining, by a second neural network, a second feature value associated with a second characteristic of the first product based on the i...