ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,880, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Centralized skills management via standardized skill tagging across tenant resources" was invented by Srivathsan Jagadeesan (Sammamish, Wash.) and Swati Jhawar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centralized skills management server, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer-implemented method for standardized skill tagging are described herein. The method includes accessing, via a processor of the computing system, a property graph including data objects corresponding to a tenant and extracting skills-related terms fro...