ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,716, issued on April 14, was assigned to Yahoo Ad Tech LLC (New York).

"Method, system, and computer-readable medium for generating recommendations based on online history information and geospatial data" was invented by Mohit Goenka (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ashish Khushal Dharamshi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gnanavel Shanmugam (San Jose, Calif.) and Nikita Varma (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for generating recommendations based on online history information and geospatial data. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for automating the transmission of electronic recom...