US Patent Issued to Shutterstock on June 23 for "Media file recommendations for a search engine" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,210, issued on June 23, was assigned to Shutterstock Inc. (New York).

"Media file recommendations for a search engine" was invented by Raul Gomez Bruballa (Dublin) and Alessandra Sala (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes determining a style preference score for a new media file based on a recommendation model, wherein the new media file is selected by a user; and when the style preference score is lower than a pre-selected value: identifying a new attribute in the new media file that is not included in the model, updating a first coefficient in the recommendation model based on a value of the new attribute, s...