US Patent Issued to TrueCar on April 1 for "System, method and computer program product for predicting a next hop in a search path" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,977, issued on April 1, was assigned to TrueCar Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"System, method and computer program product for predicting a next hop in a search path" was invented by Thomas J. Sullivan (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Michael D. Swinson (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer program product for identifying consumer items more likely to be bought by an individual user. In some embodiments, a collaborative filter may be used to rank items based on the degree to which they match user preferences. The collaborative filter may be hierarchical and may take various factors into consider...