ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,739, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Creating and using triplet representations to assess similarity between job description documents" was invented by David G. George (Cary, N.C.), Sudhanshu S. Singh (New Delhi), Joydeep Mondal (New Delhi), Sarthak Ahuja (New Delhi), John A. Medicke (Raleigh, N.C.) and Amanda Klabzuba (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and computer program product for assessing similarity between two job description documents. Job description documents consist of sentences framed in a particular manner, where the sentences are repr...