ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,677, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Recommendation method and apparatus based on automatic feature grouping" was invented by Bin Liu (Shenzhen, China), Ruiming Tang (Shenzhen, China), Huifeng Guo (Shenzhen, China), Niannan Xue (Shenzhen, China), Guilin Li (Shenzhen, China), Xiuqiang He (Shenzhen, China) and Zhenguo Li (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to the field of artificial intelligence. A recommendation method based on automatic feature grouping includes: obtaining a plurality of candidate recommended objects and a plurality of association fea...