ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,381, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Model with usage data compensation" was invented by Oren Barkan (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Roy Hirsch (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ori Katz (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Avi Caciularu (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Yonathan Weill (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Noam Koenigstein (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Nir Nice (Salit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training a machine learning model is provided. The method includes receiving labeled training data in the machine learning model, the received labeled training data including content data for items accessible to a user and in...