US Patent Issued to IDS TECHNOLOGY on June 23 for "Systems and methods for automatic generation of social media networks and interactions" (Maryland, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,214, issued on June 23, was assigned to IDS TECHNOLOGY LLC (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for automatic generation of social media networks and interactions" was invented by Tung Thanh Tran (Bradenton, Fla.) and Dongwook Shin (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying, by a computing device, a first agent on a 2-dimensional plane. A second agent on the 2-dimensional plane may be identified. The first agent and the second agent may follow a set of travel rules that dictate a travel loop between a respective home and a respective target for the first agen...