ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,204, issued on March 17, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Automatic evaluation of sticker recommendations" was invented by Aleksandr Zakharov (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Hanna Rulevska (Almere, Netherlands) and Sergey Smetanin (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to systems and methods for automatic evaluation of graphical element recommendations, such as sticker recommendations. According to some examples, a system accesses a set of text queries and provides each text query as input to a graphical element recommendation machine learning model. The graphical element recommendat...