ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,382, issued on May 20, was assigned to Pinterest Inc. (San Francisco).
"Neural taxonomy expander" was invented by Emaad Ahmed Manzoor (Pittsburgh), Rui Li (San Jose, Calif.), Dhananjay Shrouty (San Francisco) and Jurij Leskovec (Stanford, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically placing a taxonomy candidate within an existing taxonomy are presented. More particularly, a neural taxonomy expander (a neural network model) is trained according to the existing, curated taxonomic hierarchy. Moreover, for each node in the taxonomic hierarchy, an embedding vector is generated. A taxonomy candidate is receiv...