US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 6 for "Providing tag suggestions for an image in social media platforms" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,922, issued on May 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Providing tag suggestions for an image in social media platforms" was invented by Kushal S. Patel (Pune, India), Gandhi Sivakumar (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sarvesh S. Patel (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for providing tag suggestions for an image in a social media platform is provided. Aspects include receiving an image from a first user of a social media platform, obtaining a timestamp corresponding to a time that the image was captured, and obtaining a geographic location corresponding to where t...