ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,035, issued on June 2, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Task-experience discovery" was invented by Torbjorn Helvik (Oslo, Norway) and Aleksander Torstensen (Nordre Follo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein identifies a user or user group with relevant experience for a yet to be completed task that is part of a project. The technology described herein improves on past efforts to identify users with relevant experience by considering the project context of an active task and a collaboration history of the user or user group. The technology builds a project-context o...