ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,440, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ATC CAPITAL PARTNERS (Portland, Ore.).

"Developer activity modeler engine for a platform signal modeler" was invented by Scott Sandbo (Portland, Ore.), Ben Wilson (Portland, Ore.) and Steve Lidberg (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform signal modeler receives a technology platform signal comprising unstructured data associated with a set of metadata tags and executes a trained natural language processing (NLP) model to extract a set of tokens, which include a developer identifier token, a technology component mention token, and a developer impact token. Using the extracted s...