ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,029, issued on May 13, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Visual search services for multiple partners" was invented by Yan Wang (Mercer Island, Wash.), Houdong Hu (Redmond, Wash.), Li Huang (Sammamish, Wash.), Arun K. Sacheti (Redmond, Wash.) and Linjun Yang (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods can be implemented to conduct a visual search as a service in a variety of applications. In various embodiments, a system is configured to provide searching capabilities of content provided by a first entity in response to a search request by a second entity. An image provided...