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CharacTour.

A Chicago service that recommends films, shows, books and games by matching your personality to fictional characters, still online and still patenting its method.

Media and entertainment

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    CharacTour says it received US Patent 10,419,820 for its personality-based matching engine in September 2019.

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    US Patent 11,284,158, 'Profiling media characters', was granted to Charactour LLC.

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    Charactour LLC filed a further continuation application, published 6 November 2025 as US20250343975A1 and pending.

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  5. On record

    US Patent 12,323,669, 'Profiling Media Characters', filed 6 September 2023, was granted to Charactour LLC.

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    “Pandora for entertainment”

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“Pandora for entertainment”

CharacTour helps you find your next favorite movie, TV show, book, or video game based on what matters most: characters. Through our “Get Matched” personality quiz and recommendations based on similar characters – both utilizing our patent-pending matching algorithm – and other tools, we suggest characters we think you’ll love. And then you can get to know those characters via detailed profiles to decide for yourself who you want to watch or read about.

Topics
Entertainment, Publishing
Location
Chicago · United States
charactour.com ↗facebook.com/charactour ↗twitter.com/CharacTour ↗

In our words: The listing pitched CharacTour as a 'Pandora for entertainment': a 'Get Matched' personality quiz and a patent-pending algorithm suggested characters you might love, with detailed character profiles to help pick what to watch or read next.

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