ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,385, issued on April 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Machine learning to infer title levels across entities" was invented by Huichao Xue (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xiaoqing Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Chao Wang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, machine learning is used to train a machine-learned model that projects each entity, title pair into a single number, called a seniority score, to represent the career progression needed for that position. For example, company A's "software engineer" and company B's "senior software engineer" can be represented as ...