ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,576, issued on June 17, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Identification of bridge item based on target output" was invented by Fabian Gallusser (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Lian Jian (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method identifies a target item. A first score for a bridge item is generated using a first input where the first input is based on a characteristic of an entity. A second score for the target item is generated using a second input. The second input is based on the characteristic of the entity and the bridge item. The method determines whether to output the brid...