ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,775, issued on March 31, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Multi-task training process based on collaborative data" was invented by Oren Sar Shalom (Nes Ziona, Israel) and Yaakov Bibas (Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses and methods provide technology that generates an interaction matrix from collaboration data, where the collaboration data represents user interactions with a plurality of items. The technology applies a matrix factorization process to the interaction matrix to generate user vectors and matrix item vectors, and executes a multi-task training pro...