ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,005, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Pinterest Inc. (San Francisco).
"Query to interest mapping" was invented by Jinfeng Zhuang (Sammamish, Wash.), Jinyu Xie (San Mateo, Calif.) and Yunsong Guo (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying relevant content within a corpus of visual content items in response to a user's text-based query are presented. In response to a text-based query, the query is mapped to a most-engaged content item of the corpus of visual content items included in responses to the query from a plurality of users. At least one text-based term associated with the most-engag...