ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,710, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (New York).

"Computerized systems and methods for user action prediction" was invented by Shangpo Chou (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chris Luvogt (Fort Bragg, Calif.), Neeti Narayan (Roseville, Minn.), Rao Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel action prediction framework that performs personalized action prediction. According to an embodiment, the disclosed framework is able to dynamically predict which action (if any) a user might perform in response to receiving a given mess...