ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,569, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing media content recommendations" was invented by Kyle Miller (Durham, N.C.), Bryan S. Scappini (Cary, N.C.) and James W. Lent (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and associated methods are described for providing content recommendations. The system accesses a plurality of recommendation algorithms and assigns a plurality of weight values to each prediction algorithm. Then, the system generates a set of candidate weight combinations, such that each candidate combination includes a weight value assigned to e...