ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,651, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Pinterest Inc. (San Francisco).
"Visual object graphs" was invented by Eric Kim (San Francisco) and Dmitry Olegovich Kislyuk (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are implementations that enable the linking or connection of objects and different scenes in which those objects are represented. For example, a corpus of scenes (e.g., digital images) that include a representation of one or more objects may be processed using the disclosed implementations to segment from those scenes the individual objects represented in those scenes. The disclosed implementations may further de...