US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for cold-start recommendation using largescale graph models" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,445, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for cold-start recommendation using largescale graph models" was invented by Ankur Bhardwaj (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Afroza Ali (Los Altos, Calif.) and Kannan Achan (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of generating interfaces including recommended items selected by a graph-based cold-start (GCS) model are disclosed. A request for an interface is received and a set of interface items is generated for inclusion in the interface. The set of interface items is selected, at least in part, by a GCS model includi...