US Patent Issued to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES on Dec. 23 for "Personalized recommender system for information visualization" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,980, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Personalized recommender system for information visualization" was invented by Ran Jin (Blacksburg, Va.), Xiaoyu Chen (Blacksburg, Va.) and Nathan Lau (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adapting user interface designs for specific tasks performed by different users is a challenging yet important problem. Automatically adapting visualization designs to users and contexts (e.g., tasks, display devices, environments, etc.) can theoretically improve human-computer interaction to acquire insights from complex datasets. Howev...