US Patent Issued to Life Spectacular on April 15 for "Maintaining user privacy of personal, medical, and health care related information in recommendation systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,100, issued on April 15, was assigned to Life Spectacular Inc. (San Francisco).

"Maintaining user privacy of personal, medical, and health care related information in recommendation systems" was invented by Zaoshi Amy Yuan (San Francisco) and Ming S. Zhao (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing recommendations to users while maintaining privacy and information security for those users. In particular, user demographic information and/or geographic/environmental information can be represented as hashes, or fingerprints, which in turn can define a dimension of a recommendation matrix having another...