ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,116, issued on March 24, was assigned to LUXOTTICA GROUP S.P.A. (Milan).

"Product recommendation method" was invented by Cristian Cascetta (Milan), Fabio Mazzarella (Busto Arsizio, Italy), Luca Mazzocchi (Legnano, Italy), Kamal Fahmy Salama (Monza, Italy) and Filippo Bruno (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product recommendation method includes an indexing step implementing a Bayesian network capable of creating direct matches between each respective product of a product catalog and an ideal user whose characteristics are the most likely to be suitable for the respective products. The indexing step includes inputting a first d...