US Patent Issued on Jan. 20 for "Categorizing and recommending content through multi-dimensional explicit user feedback" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,414, issued on Jan. 20.

"Categorizing and recommending content through multi-dimensional explicit user feedback" was invented by Hanford Fairfax Neild (Bronxville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Existing social networks employ implicit and explicit feedback to determine which content to show a user by selecting content designed to maintain the user's attention as long as possible so that more advertisements may be shown between content. To prolong a user's engagement, the content recommendation engine may show content that engages the user through negative emotional states to the detriment of the user's well-being. In an embodim...