ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,193, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Yahoo Assets LLC (New York).

"Content recommendations based upon historical future data" was invented by Roie Melamed (Haifa, Israel), Yohay Kaplan (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Yair Koren (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for content recommendations using historical future data are provided. A model serving delay time is computed as an average of training delays of events. A historical data time interval is determined based upon the model serving delay time. A model is trained for predicting user content preferences using historic user ...