ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,150, issued on April 29, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (New York).

"Computerized system and method for distilled deep prediction for personalized stream ranking" was invented by Yufeng Ma (San Jose, Calif.), Rao Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yu Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Donghyun Kim (San Francisco), Liuqing Li (Blacksburg, Va.) and Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that provides mechanisms for a Deep & Cross Network (DCN) framework that performs distilled deep prediction for personalized stream ranking on portal websites. The disclosed fr...