ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,913, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Utilizing machine-learning models to generate identifier embeddings and determine digital connections between digital content items" was invented by Jongmin Baek (Foster City, Calif.), Jiarui Ding (Foster City, Calif.), Ermo Wei (San Bruno, Calif.) and Scott McCrae (Mill Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that utilize machine learning models to generate identifier embeddings from digital content identifiers and then leverage these identifier embeddings to dete...