US Patent Issued to The Toronto-Dominion Bank on Aug. 5 for "Automated image retrieval with image graph" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,158, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Automated image retrieval with image graph" was invented by Maksims Volkovs (Toronto), Cheng Chang (Toronto), Guangwei Yu (Toronto) and Chundi Liu (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image retrieval system receives an image for which to identify relevant images from an image repository. Relevant images may be of the same environment or object and features and other characteristics. Images in the repository are represented in an image retrieval graph by a set of image nodes connected by edges to other related image nodes with edge weights representing t...