ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,278, issued on June 10, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Remote based online product selection" was invented by Katsuyuki Sakuma (Fishkill, N.Y.), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami (Wilton, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for providing an online purchase includes displaying an electronic image of a plurality of items. A signal of a user drawn loop, drawn around one or more of the plurality of items in the electronic image is received through a network connection. The one or more items in the user drawn loop are identified. A co...