US Patent Issued to WALMART APOLLO on April 15 for "System, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium, for diversifying complementary item recommendations based on user preferences" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,589, issued on April 15, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"System, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium, for diversifying complementary item recommendations based on user preferences" was invented by Luyi Ma (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nimesh Sinha (San Jose, Calif.), Hyun Duk Cho (San Francisco), Sushant Kumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kannan Achan (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including determining, in real-time, a diversity preference score for a user based at least in part on an anchor item chosen by the user via a user interface executed on a user device of the user...