ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,978, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (Dulles, Va.).

"Method and system for literacy adaptive content personalization" was invented by Dan Pelleg (Haifa, Israel), Ran Wolff (Geva-Carmel, Israel) and Avihai Mejer (Atlit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teaching relates to a method, system, and programming for content personalization. A request is received from a user to obtain a content item. Information indicative of a literacy-level of the user is obtained and the content item to be provided to the user is retrieved. The content item is modified by updating information included in the content item ...