ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,863, issued on March 25, was assigned to Zilliz Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Retrieval apparatus, methods, and storage medium" was invented by Chao Xie (Redwood City, Calif.), Weizhi Xu (Shanghai), Songlin Wu (Shanghai), Mengzhao Wang (Shanghai) and Xiaomeng Yi (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retrieval apparatus, a method, and a storage medium are disclosed. The retrieval apparatus includes a memory and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to acquire a retrieval request, and the retrieval request includes the query vector; according to the query vector, generate and execute a first access request correspondin...