US Patent Issued to SOCIAL CIRCLE on June 23 for "System and method for trusted contact, business selection with automated menuing using trusted friends' and family's recommendations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,578, issued on June 23, was assigned to SOCIAL CIRCLE LLC (Sacramento, Calif.).

"System and method for trusted contact, business selection with automated menuing using trusted friends' and family's recommendations" was invented by Todd Fiore (Antelope, Calif.) and John Worthington (Fair Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recommendation platform that provides a menu of automated recommendations from on-line information by friends, with various weighting factors, to evaluate businesses. The platform is a software deployable system that amalgamates the candidate businesses into different categories and cross-references friend...