US Patent Issued to Nationwide Mutual Insurance on July 8 for "Recommendation engine and process" (Ohio, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,148, issued on July 8, was assigned to Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. (Columbus, Ohio).

"Recommendation engine and process" was invented by Abhishek Bishoyi (Columbus, Ohio), Chris Cargill (Westerville, Ohio), Ashley Carpenter (Westerville, Ohio) and Kevin A. Timm (Waukee, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for recommending items comprises receiving a first input from a user via a user interface and modifying the user interface based on the first input. A second input is received from the user via the user interface. The first and second inputs are used as data for running a set of primary models and a set of secondary mod...