ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,516, issued on July 29, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for providing recommendations of computer applications based on similarity" was invented by Paul Rizk (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and computer readable medium are provided for generating recommendations of computer applications for entities including: receiving, at an input of a neural network model, a set of input features for characteristics of a set of entities; automatically selecting a middle layer of the model from amongst one or more hidden layers; determining values at the middle layer for entities corresponding to...