ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,467, issued on July 15, was assigned to WYNSHOP ENTERPRISES INC. (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"System for personalized recommendations" was invented by Henry Miller Michaelson (Studio City, Calif.), Frederick Lafayette Columbus Wedgeworth III (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Gabriel Alvaro Nipote (Burbank, Calif.) and Spencer Harrison Price (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for intelligently predicting which items a user will add to an electronic shopping cart are disclosed. An item is added to an electronic shopping cart of a user. Natural language processing (NLP) determines a general product category and supporting p...