US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on April 8 for "Systems and methods for product recommendation using predictive modeling" (Swedish, British, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,162, issued on April 8, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for product recommendation using predictive modeling" was invented by Maiken Givot (St. Paul, Minn.), Mats E. Johansson (Vastervik, Sweden), Lothar N. Tacke (Neuss, Germany), Lars M. Wistrand (Orebro, Sweden) and John N. Willcock (West Midlands, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of simulating and optimizing industrial and other processes includes a computer that performs multivariate analysis of input variables and output variables to generate a data model of the operation of the process. For ind...