US Patent Issued to Federal Express on Sept. 15 for "Vector-based system for predictive recommendation generation" (Michigan, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,798, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Federal Express Corp. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Vector-based system for predictive recommendation generation" was invented by Jeremy Lerner (Southfield, Mich.), Sean Livelsberger (Hawthorn Woods, Ill.) and Gregory Gandenberger (Mt Prospect, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for recommending products, wherein the system is configured to train a machine learning model to predict a seed product for a user from a product database, predict the seed product for the user using the machine learning model, and encode an image of the seed product into a vector representation of the seed product. Th...