ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,324, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DRESSBOT INC. (Toronto).

"System and method for collaborative shopping, business and entertainment" was invented by Sami Siddique (Mississauga, Canada), Abida Raouf (Mississauga, Canada), Abdul Aziz Raouf (Mississauga, Canada) and Jesse Smith (Madoc, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for product recommendation are provided. This includes collecting personal user data including profession, gender, size, preferences, user's apparel size, user's address, who the user's friend are, user's friends' information, users' medical records including eyeglass and contact lens prescription informa...