US Patent Issued to MyScholar. on Oct. 14 for "Methodology for blinded messaging as a recruitment tool" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,925, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MyScholar. LLC (St. Louis).

"Methodology for blinded messaging as a recruitment tool" was invented by Bill Mitchell (St. Louis), Blake Ashby (Ferguson, Mo.) and Ryan Niemann (Chesterfield, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for "blinded" messaging, wherein a user can draft and send targeted communications to groups of other users having specific characteristics selected by the sending user, but the identification of the recipients is not provided to the sender. The system also permits the recipients to respond or engage in interact discussion with the sender, again without r...