ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,963, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Reputation.com Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).
"Probabilistic employee attribution" was invented by Dean Mao (San Francisco), Thomas Medina (Whittier, Calif.), Bradley William Null (Millbrae, Calif.), Lara Stoll (Berkeley, Calif.) and Hao Xu (Newark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Probabilistic employee attribution includes receiving a feedback item pertaining to an organization. It further includes extracting a named entity from text of the feedback item. It further includes determining a list of candidate employees of the organization. It further includes determining, for each candidate empl...