ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,050, issued on July 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and methods for changing a size of a group of users to be presented with a media item" was invented by Wei Huang (Kirkland, Wash.), Fabio Soldo (Los Altos, Calif.), Tianyi Pan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Matthew Leach (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for identifying a media item to be provided to a group of users of a content sharing platform, wherein the media item is associated with a category, and wherein each user in the group of users is associated with a weight indicating a probability of a corr...