ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,485, issued on July 7, was assigned to Pinterest Inc. (San Francisco).
"Associating user-provided content items to interest nodes" was invented by Chenyi Li (San Francisco), Yunsong Guo (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yu Liu (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are presented for associating a user-posted content item with an interest node of an interest taxonomy. A corpus of content items and an interest taxonomy are maintained. The interest taxonomy comprises interest nodes organized in a hierarchical organization, each node having a text label descriptive of the interest node. Additionally, the content item...