US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 27 for "Two-layer bandit optimization for recommendations" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,972, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Two-layer bandit optimization for recommendations" was invented by Siyong Ma (Brookline, Mass.), Puja Das (Cupertino, Calif.), Debankur Naskar (San Jose, Calif.), Chandrasekar Venkataraman (Los Altos, Calif.) and Sofia M. Nikolakaki (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search interface is presented with a search query input component and a suggested results section. The suggested results section includes potential search results selected based on a likelihood of selection of each of the selectable items and a search session history corresponding to...