ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,403, issued on May 6, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Classification of query text to generate relevant query results" was invented by Vikram Srinivasan (Karnataka, India), Srinivasan Seshadri (Los Altos, Calif.) and Richard Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service may provide an e-commerce platform through which users may search for, view, and purchase products. To ensure users receive relevant results when querying for particular products or product classes, a list of ranked classes may be generated, from which the query results are based. For example, products may be classified into class...