US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 4 for "Centralized skills management via skills inference within context of global skills graph" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,989, issued on March 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Centralized skills management via skills inference within context of global skills graph" 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 skills inference are described herein. The method includes executing a web-based application on a remote computing system operated by a user associated with a tenant and extracting skills-related terms associated with th...