ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,555, issued on March 17, was assigned to Zeta Global Corp. (New York).

"Systems and methods of audience expansion using deep autoencoders" was invented by Zachary D Jones (Atlata, Ga.) and Danny Portman (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for selecting an expanded audience comprising: a seed audience; an elastic profile store comprising a plurality of consumer profiles each of the consumer profiles comprising a consumer identifier and consumer characteristics wherein the seed audience is matched in the elastic profile store to select a plurality of seed profiles and at least one candidate profile; at least one encoder e...