ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,280, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Display photo update recommendations" was invented by Srikanth Raju (Sahakaranagar, India), Renuka Prasad Herur Rajashekaraiah (Bangalore, India), Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India) and Rahul Bharat Desai (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In aspects of display photo update recommendations, a catalyst is identified for updating a display photo of a user on a social media website. Further, a first collection of photos that are associated with the catalyst are retrieved from a photo gallery maintained in memory of a computing device. Using a...