ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,824, issued on March 31, was assigned to Indeed Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Machine learning-driven user profile updates for job matching" was invented by Aaron Pigeon (Oakland, Calif.), Madeline Nowicki (Saline, Mich.), Dana Langseth (Seattle) and Andrew Hudson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A web platform hosting job postings uses a machine learning-driven approach to update user profile information for matching job postings with qualified job seekers. The web platform determines a job posting to serve to a job seeker device and, using a machine learning model trained to contextually evaluate job seeker user profile info...