US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 31 for "Product recommendation based on detected trends" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,920, issued on March 31, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Product recommendation based on detected trends" was invented by Mani Bhar (Seattle), Amy Ruschak (Seattle), Akshit Mehta (Toronto) and Deep Sharma (Mill Creek, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for determining trends and products that match those trends. Trends can be identified from product information by determining product types and product attribute groupings and using time series data from a time series data service. Products can be mapped to trends by performing a textual and visual similarity matching between tre...