ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,554, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Determining projected technology information effect" was invented by Nicole Reineke (Northborough, Mass.), Corinne Schulze (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Steve Todd (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can associate interests and responsibilities that correspond to a user account with a tag, based on search data originated by the user account. The system can determine content to send to the user account based on the tag. The system can determine that an offering is first offered after sending the content to the user account. The syste...