ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,477, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The RealReal Inc. (San Francisco).

"Outfit recommender system" was invented by Christopher Brossman (Berkeley, Calif.), Dhaval Dholakia (Brighton, Mass.), Ryan Elizabeth Wolff (San Francisco), Jennifer Esteche (Montevideo, Uruguay) and Lucas Micol (Carmelo, Uruguay).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outfit recommender system includes an outfit recommender and a storage system. The storage system stores embedding information for available inventory and for preconfigured outfits. Available inventory changes dynamically as items are added or sold by a provider. Preconfigured items are grouped toget...