ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,237, issued on April 29, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Online inference and learning for nonsymmetric determinantal point processes" was invented by Ryan A. Rossi (San Jose, Calif.), Aravind Reddy Talla (Evanston, Ill.), Zhao Song (San Jose, Calif.), Anup Rao (San Jose, Calif.), Tung Mai (San Jose, Calif.), Nedim Lipka (Campbell, Calif.), Gang Wu (San Jose, Calif.) and Eunyee Koh (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for a Nonsymmetric Determinantal Point Process (NDPPs) for compatible set recommendations in a setting where data representing...