ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,190, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (Dulles, Va.).

"System and method for automated recommendation generation from communication content and application thereof" was invented by Umang Patel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kenneth Sebastian (San Jose, Calif.), Ariella Voloshin (Haifa, Israel), Ariel Livshits (Haifa, Israel) and Ariel Raviv (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for product recommendation. When communication content is received from a service provider operating on a platform, information related to a product is identified from...