ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,327, issued on Aug. 4.

"Systems and methods for electronic prediction of rubric assessments" was invented by Brian Cepuran (Kitchener, Canada), Magdalena Jankowska (Kitchener, Canada), Colin Conrad (Kitchener, Canada), Jabez Harris (Kitchener, Canada) and Vlado Keselj (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are described herein that generally relate to a system and method for processing a plurality of grade objects to determine a value for an intermediate result grade object or a final result grade object according to an assessment structure. This may be accomplished by obtaining values for a plurality of...