ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,289, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Device, method, and computer-readable media for recommendation networking based on connections, characteristics, and assets using machine learning" was invented by Micah Price (The Colony, Texas), Avid Ghamsari (Carrollton, Texas), Qiaochu Tang (Frisco, Texas), Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney, Texas) and Staeven Duckworth (Oak Point, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for providing purchase recommendations by analyzing social networks using machine learning. A machine learning model may be trained to selec...