ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,637, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QBEATS INC. (New York).

"Self-learning valuation" was invented by Illan Poreh (New York) and Assaf Zeevi (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of valuating a plurality of digital content items including: receiving the plurality of digital content items; for each received content item; establishing a plurality of attributes from content and characteristics of the content item; establishing a lifetime indicating a span of consumers interest in the content item; producing a valuation function for calculating a market value of the content item during its lifetime by finding and ranking ...