ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,117, issued on March 24, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Methods and system for automatic population of item recommendations in retail website in response to item selections" was invented by Bhavtosh Rath (Minneapolis) and Amit Pande (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recommendation system is disclosed. The recommendation system may receive a sequence of items selected by a user. Based on the sequence of items, the recommendation system may recommend one or more items. To do so, the recommendation system may apply a graph neural network. The recommendation system may receive a second sequence of items th...