ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,517, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automated description generation for job posting" was invented by Thomas Rosenkranz (San Francisco), Asim Anis (Mountain View, Calif.), Andrew Chimka (San Francisco), Daniel K. Hewlett (Clarksville, Md.), Cho Won Kim (Belmont, Calif.), Zixin Li (San Francisco), Hang Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Pierre Monestie (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Jianqiang Shen (San Mateo, Calif.) and Deanne Moree Chan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the described technologies receive, via a user interface, an input associated with a first u...