ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,687, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Supplemental content recommender" was invented by Yan Fu (Bellevue, Wash.), Sunny Chiu Webster (Woodinville, Wash.), Kellen Gillespie (Bellevue, Wash.), Zeynabalsadat Raeesy (Seattle), Qian You (Bellevue, Wash.) and Yao Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining supplemental content of potential interest to a user are described. A system may receive system usage data of a user and supplemental content presentation data including supplemental content and indicating how it is to be presented. The system may determine fir...