ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,027, issued on May 13, was assigned to DISCORD INC. (San Francisco).

"Emoji recommendation system" was invented by Cameron Alston (Seattle), Tristan Cossio (San Francisco), Shuyu Luo (Belmont, Calif.), Arin Schwartz (San Francisco) and Ken Soong (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides an emoji recommendation service that measures a similarity score between a global emoji embedding space of an online community with a user embedding space generated from the global emoji embedding space and generates a ranking of top emojis based on the measured similarity score. The emoji recommendation serv...