ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,085, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Generating navigational target recommendations using parallel neural networks" was invented by Simon Chow (San Francisco) and Amir Hossein Rezaeian (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating navigational target recommendations for a user are disclosed. A system propagates sets of user attributes through one neural network and sets of navigational target attributes through another neural network. The neural networks are configured to generate, as outputs, vectors mapped to a same vector space. The system train...