ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,669, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MediaLab.AI (Venice, Calif.).
"System and method for selecting sponsored images to accompany text" was invented by Michael Heyward (Santa Monica, Calif.), Maarten Bosma (Santa Monica, Calif.), Samuel Brotherton (Los Angeles), Charles DePue III (Santa Monica, Calif.), Manuel Ernesto Gomez Contreras (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Chase Evans (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for selecting an image to accompany text from a user in connection with a social media post. The system includes receiving text from the user; identifying one or more search terms based on the text; identifyi...