ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,244, issued on July 21, was assigned to ADP Inc. (Roseland, N.J.).
"System and method for using graph theory to rank characteristics" was invented by Roberto Coutinho (Porto Alegre, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for building knowledge graphs which map the aspects of entities, then transforming the graphs into vectors for a similarity comparison. The resulting vectors can be used to identify skills and competencies of individuals, which the system uses to compare those individuals to others. The system can then quantify who would make for a good replacement for a given indi...