ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,552, issued on March 4, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Feature extraction system and method for enhancing recommendations" was invented by Xiaohui Rong (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, performed by at least one processor of a computing device, for recommending an event, the method including determining a frequency of execution of the event by a user among a plurality of users; determining an inverse user frequency of execution of the event based on the plurality of users who have executed the event; generating a recommendation factor by modifying the frequency of execution of the event by the user base...