US Patent Issued to Block on Jan. 27 for "Engagement-based collaboration recommendations" (California, Washington, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,998, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Engagement-based collaboration recommendations" was invented by Linnea Perelli-Minetti (Seattle), Robin Standifer (Inglewood, Calif.) and Forrest Durell (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recommendation system is described, which identifies engaged fans for an artist and requests input from the engaged fans regarding a collaboration by the artist with at least one different artist. In implementations, engaged fans are identified as having user profiles on a media content platform that satisfy at least one threshold engagement criteria based on consum...