US Patent Issued to VITALXCHANGE on June 24 for "Hierarchical tagging for personalized matching" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,909, issued on June 24, was assigned to VITALXCHANGE INC. (North Royalton, Ohio).

"Hierarchical tagging for personalized matching" was invented by Jeffrey B. Adair (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio), Charulatha Ramanathan (Solon, Ohio), Ketal C. Patel (Cleveland) and Jiyan Gardi (Laguna Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As an example, a system includes a hierarchical tag database that includes a plurality of tags arranged according to a hierarchical data schema for a number of tag hierarchies, and tags within each level of a respective tag hierarchy have a different specificity relative to each other level of the respective tag hierar...