US Patent Issued to THE TRUST on Jan. 20 for "Methods and systems for crowd sourcing trusted employment referrals" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,660, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to THE TRUST LLC (Dover, Del.).

"Methods and systems for crowd sourcing trusted employment referrals" was invented by Jin Kim (Gaithersburg, Md.), Conway Lin (Perry Hall, Md.), Taft Wallace (Broadlands, Va.), Christopher Reinhardt (Arlington, Va.) and Jonatan Membreno (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for creating a referral-based database of resumes of candidates using blockchain smart contracts are provided. The systems and method include providing at least one smart contract blockchain profile, the at least one smart contract blockchain profile corresponding to a...