ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,268, issued on March 18, was assigned to iSchoolConnect Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Quality and efficacy analysis of statement of purpose in higher education admissions using machine learning" was invented by Himanshu Maurya (Jaunpur, India), Atul Verma (Jaipur, India), Ashish Shriram Tulsankar (Mumbai, India) and Ashish Fernando (Draper, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for the multifaceted analysis of a written work, such as an educational program admission essay, using machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing. Language, relevance, structure, and flows are evaluated for an overall impa...