ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,372, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Customized interaction between networked resources and users" was invented by Joseph Paul Wigglesworth (Thornhill, Canada), Hao Jiang (London, Canada), Konstantinos Kontogiannis (York, Canada) and Tinny Mei Chi Ng (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for a customized interaction between networked resources and users includes obtaining a model including templated resources, and abstracting, grouping, and using the model, classifying networked resources into categories, defined by and conforming to a set of ...