ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,877, issued on July 29, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).
"Alternative item booster service" was invented by Itamar David Laseron (Givat Shmuel, Israel), Rotem Chudin (Kfar-Saba, Israel), Julie Dvora Katz Ohayon (Ashdod, Israel) and Moshe Shaharur (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Item vectors representing transaction contexts for items are mapped to multidimensional space. A request is received for an alternative to a given item from a resource. The multidimensional space is evaluated to identify closest candidate items to the given item based on the corresponding item vectors. An optimal candidate item is se...