ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,624, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Optimized embedding search" was invented by Daniel Baxter (Stittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for an embedding search that are optimized, e.g., for a "find similar" or "more like this" search. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a request to find data records in a collection of data records that are similar to a particular data record, determining that the particular data record is not included in a model comprising data indicative of similar data records among the collection based on embe...