ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,408, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Designing conflict reducing outreach strategies to mitigate inefficiencies in proactive sourcing process" was invented by John Arthur Medicke (Raleigh, N.C.), Ramasuri Narayanam (Andhra Pradesh, India), Sudhanshu Shekhar Singh (New Delhi), Shweta Garg (New Delhi) and Gyana Ranjan Parija (Gurgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for designing conflict minimizing outreach strategies are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining data from a job matching service correspo...