US Patent Issued to MyFitnessPal on Oct. 7 for "Deep multi-modal pairwise ranking model for crowdsourced food data" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,004, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MyFitnessPal Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Deep multi-modal pairwise ranking model for crowdsourced food data" was invented by Surender Reddy Yerva (Austin, Texas), Iman Barjasteh (Austin, Texas), Patrick Howell (Austin, Texas), Chul Lee (Austin, Texas) and Hesamoddin Salehian (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for providing more relevant search results and recommendation from a food database is disclosed. The method includes receiving a query, a first candidate food, and a second candidate food. The method includes generating vectors based on the query and food names of t...