ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,472, issued on June 17, was assigned to Patreon Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generation of engagement and support recommendations for content creators" was invented by Jack Conte (Cotati, Calif.), Scott Takahashi (Oakland, Calif.), Manuel Andere (Mountain View, Calif.) and Carlos Cabrera (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for generating engagement recommendations suggesting ways that one or more creators of content may maximize subscribership and/or subscription-based revenue, as well as support recommendations suggesting ways that the one or more creators of content may realize successful suppor...