ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,038, issued on April 29, was assigned to IQVIA Inc. (Parsippany, N.J.).
"Matching service requester with service providers" was invented by Robert Etches (Vejle, Denmark) and Jaromir Dzialo (Cracow, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory, computer-readable storage media are disclosed for matching a service requester with a service provider via a taxonomy based directed graph. The method includes: receiving a keyword associated with a service; accessing a directed graph including a root node and nodes connected by edges, each node having a title; identifying a second node of the directed gra...