US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 20 for "System and method of determining proximity between different populations" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,742, issued on May 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method of determining proximity between different populations" was invented by Sergiy Dubynskiy (Kenmore, Wash.), Tatiana Shubin (Redmond, Wash.), Sandhya Shahdeo (Snoqualmie, Wash.) and Poornima Muthukumar (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for analyzing a proximity between a first user population and a second user population includes receiving a request to perform a proximity analysis between the first user population and the second user population, accessing data related to the first user populati...