ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,535, issued on July 1, was assigned to Subfiber OU (Tallinn, Estonia).

"Selecting items from a database" was invented by Ahto Ahas (Tallinn, Estonia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, visual preference of a user is determined by selecting a display set of item images from at least one item database and causing the item images of the display set to be displayed at a user interface. Engagement events at the user interface between the user and engaged-with item images are detected and used to determine a visual preference hypothesis for the user based on visual features extracted from the engaged-with item images. New item ima...