US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 15 for "Systems and method for generating recommendations based on location-based, item similarities" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,590, issued on April 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and method for generating recommendations based on location-based, item similarities" was invented by Albert J. Morello (Middleton, Mass.), Vinod Krishnan Kulathumani (Westborough, Mass.), Lawrence Lindstrom Page (Worcester, Mass.) and Tyler Allan Hendrickson (Tewksbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to, in part, mobile carts and/or associated computing devices that are configured to determine their respective location, determine an item in a facility that is associated with an item location that is nearest the loca...