ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,831, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (New York).

"Recommendation systems for generating virtual environments based on personalized recommendations" was invented by Sastry VSM Durvasula (Phoenix), Rares Ioan Almasan (Paradise Valley, Ariz.), Swatee Singh (Livingston, N.J.), Upendra Sharadchandra Mardikar (Fremont, Calif.) and Vamsi Pola (Concord, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory, and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory, to perform operations including obtaining user data associated with a user, generating, using at least one machi...