ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,591, issued on June 17, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Method, system, and computer program product for providing product data and/or recommendations" was invented by James McDonald Bostock (San Mateo, Calif.) and Lisa Hammitt (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for providing product data to a user. The method may include receiving query data associated with a plurality of queries of a database by a user. A classification for at least two queries of the plurality of queries may be determined. A product associated with the classification of the at least two queri...