ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,474, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TrueBlue Inc. (Tacoma, Wash.).

"Recommendation platform for skill development" was invented by Christopher A. Kapcar (Hinsdale, Ill.), Richard Paul Betori (Gurnee, Ill.), Jeffrey Howard Rash (Naperville, Ill.), Robert Michael Ward (Issaquah, Wash.), Jeffrey S. Dirks (Kirkland, Wash.), Jeroen Anton Decker (Ravensdale, Wash.) and Shawn David Dillenbeck (Bartlett, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a platform that manages worker users in a temporary staffing environment via an artificial machine learning model. The temporary staffing platform matches available workers to available sh...