ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,942, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Panasonic Well LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating representative models" was invented by Yoky Matsuoka (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Nitin Viswanathan (San Francisco), Gwendolyn W. van der Linden (Redwood City, Calif.), Malia Beaulieu (San Jose, Calif.), Lingyun Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Benjamin Deming (Campbell, Calif.) and Sean Paterson (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented herein for generating representative models and assigning members of a task-facilitation service to representatives based on corresponding representa...