ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,980, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Pinterest Inc. (San Francisco).
"Visual search refinement" was invented by Jason Luke Wilson (Mill Valley, Calif.) and Naveen Gavini (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system and method for enabling visual search for information. With each selection of a search term, additional search terms are dynamically selected and presented to the user in conjunction with results matching the currently selected search terms. Likewise, a selected search term may be tokenized and a graphical token presented to the user to represent the selected search term."
The patent was filed on J...