ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,602, issued on May 13, was assigned to ManyWorlds Inc. (Brenham, Texas).

"Exploratory recommender method and system" was invented by Steven Dennis Flinn (Sugar Land, Texas) and Naomi Felina Moneypenny (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exploratory recommender method and system generates affinity vectors from usage behaviors that are associated with stored content objects. A user's inferred content preferences are embodied within a multidimensional affinity space that is generated in accordance with the affinity vectors. An affinity space exploration algorithm explores areas within the multidimensional affinity space t...