ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,388, issued on July 1, was assigned to Lystr LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"User profile matching using lists" was invented by Alessandro De Paolis (Fort Lauderdal, Fla.), Francis Nagle (Hanover, Mass.) and Neal Pollard (Westfield, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for list matching and/or user matching using lists is described. A method includes receiving first data associated with a first user profile including a first set of ranked items and a first title having one or more keywords. The method further includes identifying second data associated with a second user profile including a second set of ranked items ...