US Patent Issued to Spotify on July 15 for "Systems and methods for calibrating recommendations using a maximum flow approach" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,052, issued on July 15, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Systems and methods for calibrating recommendations using a maximum flow approach" was invented by Tony Jebara (Monte Sereno, Calif.), Himan Abdollahpouri (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Zahra Nazari (New York), Alexander Zachary Gain (Valrico, Fla.), Maria Dimakopoulou (Los Gatos, Calif.), Benjamin Carterette (Wilmington, Del.), Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke (Saffron Walden, Great Britain) and Clay Gibson (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic system stores metadata for a plurality of media items, including, for each media item of the plurality of media items, at leas...