ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,704, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Mercari Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Machine-learning prediction or suggestion based on object identification" was invented by John Alexander Lagerling (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Byong Mok Oh (Los Altos, Calif.), Fritz Mikio Kuribayashi (Tokyo), Takuma Yamaguchi (Saitama, Japan), Rishabh Kumar Shrivastava (Tokyo), Takaya Ukai (Tokyo) and Viswakumar Sukeesh Babu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, computer-program product (non-transitory computer-readable medium), and method embodiments for machine-learning prediction or suggestion based on object identification. A sys...