US Patent Issued to AstrumU on March 11 for "Confirming skills and proficiency in course offerings" (American, Ukrainian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,898, issued on March 11, was assigned to AstrumU Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Confirming skills and proficiency in course offerings" was invented by Xiao Cai (Redmond, Wash.), Ujash Suresh Patel (Renton, Wash.), Kaj Orla Peter Pedersen (Bellevue, Wash.), Fedir Skitsko (Kharkov, Ukraine) and Adam Jason Wray (Medina, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to managing courses. Course information for a course may be provided. Skill terms may be determined for the course based on the course information and skill models. Candidate skills may be determined based on the skill terms and a unified skill dictionary such that...