US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on July 1 for "Visual intent triggering for visual search" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,370, issued on July 1, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Visual intent triggering for visual search" was invented by Xi Chen (Bellevue, Wash.), Houdong Hu (Redmond, Wash.), Li Huang (Sammamish, Wash.), Jiapei Huang (Seattle), Arun Sacheti (Sammamish, Wash.), Linjun Yang (Sammamish, Wash.), Rui Xia (Vancouver, Canada), Kuang-Huei Lee (Redmond, Wash.), Meenaz Merchant (Kirkland, Wash.) and Sean Chang Culatana (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms to perform visual intent classification or visual intent detection or both on an image. Visual intent classi...