US Patent Issued to Yahoo Ad Tech on June 24 for "Combining vectors output by multiple different mechanisms for content item retrieval" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,406, issued on June 24, was assigned to Yahoo Ad Tech LLC (New York).

"Combining vectors output by multiple different mechanisms for content item retrieval" was invented by Eric McVoy Dodds (Berkeley, Calif.), Benjamin Jackson Culpepper (Berkeley, Calif.) and Gaurav Srivastava (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more systems and/or methods for combining vectors output by multiple different mechanisms for content item retrieval are provided. An image encoder may output a first set of vectors generated by an image model using an input image as input. A text encoder may output a second set of vectors generated by a text...