ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,603, issued on May 13, was assigned to ManyWorlds Inc. (Brenham, Texas).

"Vector-based search 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: "A vector-based search method and system generates affinity vectors within a multidimensional affinity space by applying neural networks to stored content objects. A neural network is applied to content that is input by a user to generate an affinity vector, which is then compared to the affinity vectors corresponding to the stored content objects using a mathematical-based vector comparison al...