US Patent Issued to Phia Holdings on June 24 for "System and method for recommending resale alternatives for retail goods" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,410, issued on June 24, was assigned to Phia Holdings Inc. (New York).

"System and method for recommending resale alternatives for retail goods" was invented by Phoebe Gates (New York), Sophia Kianni (New York) and Silas Alberti (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recommendation system identifies resale goods corresponding to retail goods being viewed by a user on a retail goods website. Retail goods metadata and images are extracted from the retail goods website using heuristics and LLM-based methods. The extracted retail goods data undergoes ML model-based product category classification, intelligent image cropping, ...