ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,043, issued on March 24, was assigned to MCB Bermuda Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda).

"Social match platform apparatus, method, and system" was invented by Thomas J. Chevalier (New York), Matthew Mund (New, N.Y.), Kristi Ince (New York) and Dee Dellovo (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The SOCIAL MATCH PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS ("SMP") transforms platform join requests, social network info, and SMP network info inputs via SMP components NJ, JIP, CIP, OP, CN-SGU and CN-UPSOG into job info, candidate info, offer info, and social meetup info outputs. A job information request for a candidate may be obtained....