US Patent Issued to EDUCATION4SIGHT on May 20 for "Systems and methods for providing knowledge bases of assessment items" (Tunisian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,402, issued on May 20, was assigned to EDUCATION4SIGHT GmbH (Erlangen, Germany).

"Systems and methods for providing knowledge bases of assessment items" was invented by Brahim Hnich (Sfax, Tunisia) and Lassaad Essafi (Wettstetten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for education instrumentation can include a computer system receiving assessment data indicative of performances of a plurality of respondents with respect to a plurality of assessment items. The computer system can determine, using the assessment data, item difficulty parameters of the plurality of assessment items and respondent ability parameters...