ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,067, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Image segmentation and vectorization system for complementary styling products" was invented by Arjun Rao (Fremont, Calif.) and Nick Pendar (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for segmenting each image of a first plurality of images, using an image processing segmentation technique, into one or more category of a plurality of predefined categories to generate a set of image segments for the image. A numerical vector representation is generated for each image segment and for each image in a second plurality of images and...