US Patent Issued to Block on May 13 for "Event-based customized recommendations in a distributed network" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,054, issued on May 13, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Event-based customized recommendations in a distributed network" was invented by Crissy Solh (Dublin, Calif.), Neil Long (Dublin), Sarah Edwards (New Orleans), Ghazal Niazi (Seattle), Ashley Yee (Los Angeles) and Alana Joyce (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A payment service system monitors data associated with a dynamic information feed and determines trending causes based on the monitoring. The system accesses user information associated with a user and identifies a trending cause that is relevant to the user based on the user information. The system...