ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,462, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Multi-feature resource recommender system for process optimization and user preference inference" was invented by Michal Adam Sroka (Birkerod, Denmark), Mohammadreza Fani Sani (Lyngby, Denmark), Shahab Moradi (San Bruno, Calif.) and Alejandro Gutierrez Munoz (Parkland, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions for identifying and optimizing a process are provided herein. A recommender system creates a plurality of event pairs from an event log, and using historical data and features corresponding to the event pairs, the recommender syste...