ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,161, issued on April 15, was assigned to ThinkAnalytics Ltd. (Lanarkshire, Great Britain).

"Content recommendation system and method" was invented by Peter Docherty (Glasgow, Great Britain), Christopher McGuire (Glasgow, Great Britain), Xiaowei Zhang (Glasgow, Great Britain), Richard Dowling (Glasgow, Great Britain) and Craig Palmer (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of providing one or more content item recommendations for a user of a content distribution system, comprising: determining if a user search using a title of content finds the title of content in one or more content sources ...