US Patent Issued to Netflix on March 31 for "Systems and methods for generating personalized recommendation explanations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,113, issued on March 31, was assigned to Netflix Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating personalized recommendation explanations" was invented by Nan Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Linas Baltrunas (San Jose, Calif.), Hakan Ceylan (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Erik Michael Schmidt (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving, by a computing device, a request to generate an explanation of a recommendation to a user, wherein the request includes a recommended title and a profile history of the user. The method may include selecting a set of previous titles f...