ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,960, issued on July 8, was assigned to Dash Hudson (Halifax, Canada).

"Engagement prediction of image assets on social media" was invented by Jacek Wolkowicz (Halifax, Canada) and Tomasz Niewiarowski (Halifax, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology can receive a collection of candidate images that are candidates for posting on a social media platform, and then determine, using artificial intelligence model, a prediction of expected engagement on the social media platform for each image of the candidate images."

The patent was filed on Nov. 26, 2019, under Application No. 16/696,569.

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