US Patent Issued to Block on June 16 for "Search ranking adjustment system" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,195, issued on June 16, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Search ranking adjustment system" was invented by Mohammadreza Alagheband (Oppegard, Norway), Paul Chira (Oslo, Norway) and Altan Timullin Cabal Lombodorzh (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embedding-based search adjustment system is described. In an example, a search system generates digital content embeddings based on digital content characteristics using machine learning and indexes these embeddings with respective identifiers according to an embedding schema based on the digital content characteristics. Upon receiving a search result containing refe...