US Patent Issued to Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance on Feb. 11 for "Methods and systems for determining a query response using a computing platform in a domain of beauty or cosmetic industry" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,998, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance Inc. (Bolingbrook, Ill.).

"Methods and systems for determining a query response using a computing platform in a domain of beauty or cosmetic industry" was invented by Ben Pham (Bolingbrook, Ill.), Chatura Samarasinghe (Bolingbrook, Ill.) and David Ruvalcaba (Bolingbrook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes receiving by a server and from a computing device a natural language-based query, converting the natural language-based query into an embedding formatted query having a vector format, inputting the embedding formatted query into a ma...