ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,667, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to NAVER Corp. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Ranking systems and methods using a dynamic bayesian network exposure model" was invented by Till Kletti (La Tronche, France) and Jean-Michel Renders (Quaix en Chartreuse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ranking a set of objects includes: receiving the set of objects to rank, a relevance score for each object, and a set of objective functions; based on the relevance scores for the objects, defining a decision space having n decision variables using a polytope, where n is the number of objects to rank and where vertices of the polytope re...