ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,996, issued on June 3, was assigned to Builders Digital Experience LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Digital search and collaboration process for recommendations, advertising, and buying decisions" was invented by Tim Costello (Austin, Texas), Mark Law (Austin, Texas), Krishna Murthy (Austin, Texas), Peter Brumme (Austin, Texas) and Drew Leakey (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and media having at least one processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instruction which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising rece...